The Sources

• Whitney directed by Kevin Macdonald (documentary)

• Whitney: "Can I Be Me?" directed by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal (documentary)

• Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 by Alex Lubin (book)

• Interracial Romance as a Staged Spectacle in "Made in America," "Bringing Down the House" and "Guess Who" by Helene Charlery (article)

• Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (Chapter 8: Music, Video, Cinema: Singers and Movie Stars) by Yvonne Tasker

• Whitney Houston 1963-2012 by Robin Roberts (article)

• Nationality, Race, and Gender on the American Pop Charts: What happened in the '90s? by Alan Wells (article)

• Whitney is Every Woman: Cultural Politics and the Pop Star by Marla Shelton (article)

• Divafication: The deification of modern female pop stars by Linda Lister (article)

• A Vision of Love: An Etiquette of Vocal Ornamentation in African-American Popular Ballads of the Early 1990s by Richard Rischar (article)

• ‘Not black enough’: the identity crisis that haunted Whitney Houston by Steve Rose (TheGuardian.com)

• Remember When Whitney Houston Got Booed for Being Too White? by Rich Juzwiak (Gawker.com)

• The Two Voices of Whitney Houston by Doreen St. Félix (NewYorker.com)

• The Complexities of Whitney Houston in “Whitney” by Michael Schulman (NewYorker.com)

• The Soul of Whitney by Joy Duckett Cain (Essence Magazine, December 1990) transcribed by ClassicWhitney.com

• Whitney Houston talks about the men in her life — and the Rumors, Lies and Insults that are the High Price of Fame by Lynn Norment (Ebony Magazine, May 1991) archived by Google Books

• Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next by LA Reid (book)

• Diana Ross: A Biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli (book)

• Erased Onscreen: Where Are All the Interracial Couples? by Kevin Noble Maillard (NYTimes.com)

The Media Cited

• clip from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) directed by Stanley Kramer

• You Give Good Love by Whitney Houston

• Saving All My Love For You by Whitney Houston

• How Will I Know by Whitney Houston

• Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston

• I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston

• Didn’t We Almost Have it All by Whitney Houston

• So Emotional by Whitney Houston

• Where Do Broken Hearts Go by Whitney Houston

• Best Female Single '89 from Soul Train Awards uploaded by beyonceitis (youtube.com)

• Interlude: Pledge by Janet Jackson

• Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson

• Rhythmless Nation from In Living Color uploaded by Mr. Wonder (youtube.com)

• I'm Your Baby Tonight by Whitney Houston

• Arsenio Hall interviews Whitney Houston from The Arsenio Hall Show [aired January 4, 1991] uploaded by ZanDTV (youtube.com)

• The Bodyguard (1992) - Interview - Part 1 from MTV's The Big Picture uploaded by mariah (youtube.com)

• David Foster Story behind Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You from ABC News Nightline [aired February 2012] uploaded by vSpirit2 (youtube.com)

• I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston

• clip from The Bodyguard (1992)

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The Music

• Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

• Waltz Opus Posthume by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Toothless Slope by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• In the Back Room by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Spins and Never Falls by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Tyrano Theme by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• White Limit by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Faster Faster Brighter by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Sunday Lights by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Destiny Awaits (Instrumental) by Pat Daugherty (marmosetmusic.com)