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Original Articles

‘Larger than life’: celebrity journalism, gender and black politics in Fay M. Jackson’s Hollywood adventures, 1933–1935

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Pages 1-16 | Received 21 Sep 2016, Accepted 28 Mar 2017, Published online: 22 May 2017

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