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Matthew Pratt Guterl
Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe [EPUB ebook]

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Her performing days numbered, Josephine Baker did something outrageous: she transformed her chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe–12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future. Matthew Pratt Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious activist, determined to make a positive difference.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 286 ● ISBN 9780674369962 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3064833 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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