For instance, genetic studies of African-American people show an ancestry that is on average 17 – 18 % European.

For more than a century, when white performers have wanted to appear sexy, ( like Elvis or Mick Jagger ); or streetwise, ( like Eminem ); or hip, ( like Mezz Mezzrow ); they often have turned to African-American performance styles, stage presence and personas.

For instance, in the United States, the term down-low is used to refer to African-American men who do not identify themselves with the gay or queer cultures, but who practice gay cruising, and adopt a specific hip-hop attire during this activity.

For example, noted African-American anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston worked extensively as an apprentice for various hoodoo doctors and wrote about her experiences.

For a brief period starting in 1979, the Blade also had competition from Blacklight, the city's first African-American gay monthly periodical.

The name is sometimes considered an acronym for " For Us By Us ", implying the product line was produced for a primarily African-American market.

For the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, Dorothy ( originated in The Wiz by Stephanie Mills ) is reimagined as a young African-American girl, though most of her other characteristics, as well as the general plot of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, remain intact.

For example in 2000 Census Tract 5003. 00 was 53. 5 % White and 26. 7 % African-American, and 36. 1 % of Hispanic Origin of any race.

For example, the South Oak Cliff neighborhood ( one of the primary African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Dallas ), which generally includes neighborhoods south of Illinois Avenue, was never part of the original town of Oak Cliff.

For example, in the early years of rock and roll, many songs originally recorded by African-American musicians were re-recorded by white artists such as Pat Boone in a more toned-down style, often with changed lyrics, that lacked the hard edge of the original versions.

For $ 9. 50 a week, Walter Mosley attended the Victory Baptist day school, a private African-American elementary school that held pioneering classes in black history.

For many years, he was a spokesperson for the Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company, helping promote the brand on radio and TV to African-American markets much as Ed McMahon did for the white audience ( and Alex Trebek continues to do to this day ).

For his efforts in defeating segregation, Louis Redding was honored with a life-size bronze statue of him embracing a young African-American schoolboy and a young white schoolgirl outside the City-County government complex, also named for him, in downtown Wilmington.

For many years African-American culture developed separately from mainstream American culture, both because of slavery and the persistence of racial discrimination in America, as well as African-American slave descendants ' desire to create and maintain their own traditions.

For instance, Wilberforce University, founded by Methodist and African Methodist Episcopal ( AME ) representatives in Ohio in 1856 for the education of African-American youth, was in its first years largely supported by wealthy southern planters who paid for the education of their mixed-race children.

For example, Dr. Booker T. Washington, a famous African-American educator, had a long-time friendship with millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers who provided him with substantial amounts of money to be applied for the betterment and education of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Ritz also co-wrote the best-selling memoir of African-American journalist Tavis Smiley What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America.

For example, after the lynching of an African-American farmer or an immigrant merchant, the victim's property would often become available to whites.

For many years, the wide street was the de facto boundary between Caucasian and African-American neighborhoods of the city, especially in the tense years after the 1968 race riots ; today this is less true.

For the last few decades, Brewerytown has been a predominantly poor, African-American neighborhood.

For the African-American girl group, see The Chantels

For The Pawnshop he recruited the actor Henry Bergman, who was to work with Chaplin for 30 years.

For example, a shot of a zombie getting its head cut off may, for instance, start with a view of an axe being swung through the air, followed by a close-up of the actor swinging it, then followed by a cut back to the now severed head.

For the 2004 video game The Bard's Tale, he served as scriptwriter, improviser, and voice actor of the main character The Bard.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

In Looking For Eric, the main actor Steve Evets discovered that football icon Eric Cantona was in the film only when he turned around to face him in a scene, with the camera rolling.

For the title role, Burton chose to cast Michael Keaton as Batman following their previous collaboration in Beetlejuice, despite Keaton's average physique, inexperience with action films, and reputation as a comic actor.

For example, these rules required film and television actor Michael Fox to add a middle initial and become Michael J.

For the Italian actor, see Gigi Ballista.

* For his contribution as an actor, Richard Barthelmess was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

( Randy Quaid also received an Academy Award nomination before either of them, but that was before he became a Not Ready For Prime Time actor himself.

* For the actor who played singing cowboy " Bob Blake " in a series of all African American westerns from the 1930s, see Herb Jeffries

For example, a set may be built with break-away doors or walls to enhance a fight scene, or prosthetic makeup can be used to make an actor look like a monster.

For example, " The Great Paris " ( Leonard Nimoy ), Hand's replacement in the fourth and fifth seasons, was also an actor, make-up artist, magician and " master of disguise.

For example, if the lighting is set up with a stand-in shorter than an actor, the actor might end up having his or her head in relative darkness.

For example, in December 1924, actor Paul Robeson, then appearing in a revival of Eugene O ' Neill's The Emperor Jones, performed a scene from the play over New York's WGBS to critical acclaim.

For the scene in which C-3PO speaks Ewokese, actor Anthony Daniels worked with Burtt and invented words, based on the Kalmyk recordings.

For various fight scenes of the film, including the lightsaber duels, British actor Andrew Lawden served as Neeson's body double.

For most of her career she was the highest paid actor or actress at MGM, making her for many years its biggest star.

For Bob's voice, Grammer performed an impression of theatre actor and director Ellis Rabb.

For 18 months while at the bank he worked as an actor and stage manager, making his first appearance in A Murder Has Been Arranged as the musical director of the play-within-a-play.

For example when someone is in a state such as being drunk or enraged, people may have knowledge, and even show that they have that knowledge, like an actor, but not be using it.

: For the film actor, see George Barbier ( actor )