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"The scholar's Elvis has more in common with the one the fans cry out to: the Healing Elvis. This is Elvis as racial integrator, as gender-liberating sexual healer. The Multicultural Elvis is an even grander figure than the one the fans conceive of--an Elvis who heals not just personal pain in individual souls but painful rifts in the nation's soul, rifts not only between black and white but between sex and spirituality."Chadwick, Vernon is the author of 'In Search of Elvis Music, Race, Art, Religion' with ISBN 9780813329871 and ISBN 0813329876.
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