This newly designed, typeset, and updated edition of Donald Bogle's classic study and celebration of America's “dark divas” now takes readers up to the present. Originally published in 1980, <IT>Brown Sugar<RO> was also the basis for the four-hour, four-part, documentary that appeared on PBS as well as on German Education Television, all also written by Bogle. Lavishly illustrated, <IT>Brown Sugar<RO> is a pioneering book.