CAMILLE F. FORBES
Author * Historian * Performer

MY WORK

THE BOOK:


Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star





OTHER PUBLICATIONS:


"Dancing with 'Racial Feet': Bert Williams and the Performance of Blackness"
An analysis of Bert Williams's onstage and offstage interventions as a solo performer in vaudeville.

"Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar of Ibn Said"
An analysis of the rediscovered 1831 slave narrative of Muslim Omar ibn Said, studying the narrative's use of Arabic language and Qur'anic references.
--Co-author with Ghada Osman






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