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Staging migrations toward an American West : from Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones / Marta Effinger-Crichlow.
Van Pelt Library E185.925 .E44 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Effinger-Crichlow, Marta.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- African American women.
- African Americans--Migrations.
- African Americans.
- African American women entertainers.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
- Migration, Internal.
- African American women--West (U.S.)--History.
- African American women--Social conditions.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 274 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781607323112
- 1607323117
- OCLC:
- 867020572
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