Staging migrations toward an American West : from Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones

Staging migrations toward an American West : from Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones /

Staging Migrations toward an American West examines how black women's theatrical and everyday performances of migration toward the American West expose the complexities of their struggles for sociopolitical emancipation. While migration is often viewed as merely a physical process, Effinger-Cri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Effinger-Crichlow, Marta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2014]
Subjects:
1800-1899
African American women > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
African Americans > Migrations.
African American women entertainers.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 19th century.
African American women > West (U.S.) > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African American women
African American women entertainers
African American women > Social conditions
African Americans > Migrations
Migration, Internal
United States
West United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "Tell my people to go West": Ida B. Wells
  • "I'd go [wherever] they said 'show' ": Black Patti's Troubadours
  • "Wherever the opportunity was goin' to be I'd a been gone": black female migrants in World War II's defense industry
  • "I want to go home": Rhodessa Jones's Medea project: theatre for incarcerated women
  • Epilogue: Rhodessa Jones's Medea.

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