Booker T. & them : a blues / as presented by Bill Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Bill, 1941-

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series.

Made in Michigan writers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations--History--Poetry.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Which Treats the New Century in the New Nation & a Couple of Movers & Shakers Who Shake & Move It""; ""2 Which Treats of the Station in Life & the Pursuits of the Famous Colored Gentleman, Booker T. Washington, & His Sally to Break Bread with President Theodore Roosevelt TR, & That Meal�s Aftermath""; ""Interlude 1""; ""3 Which Treats of “The Great Negro Educator�s� Sally along the Avenue; Frederick Douglass""; ""Interlude 2""

""4 Wherein Are Related Matters Trifling & Historic, Lame-Brained & Etymological, Relating to Jim Crow & His Formidable Rise""""Interlude 3""; ""5 Which Treats of the Last Stop of the Montgomery & West Point Railroad before BT�s Return to Tuskegee, & Philosophical/Political Musings on Music & Time Travel""; ""Interlude 4""; ""Interlude 5""; ""Interlude 6""; ""6 Which Treats of George Washington Carver (1864�1943, Inventor, Tuskegee Professor); Invent, Inventor, Inventing & Polaris""; ""Interlude 7""; ""Interlude 8""

""7 Of the Migration Blues, Ship of Fools & State, & Moving on Up with Moving on Up""""Interlude 9""; ""8 Of a Booker T. Ditty, & an Imagined Want Ad""; ""9 In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Befalls Booker T. When He Encounters Certain Wicked Upstarts in Boston""; ""Interlude 10""; ""10 On Niagara Falls, Brownsville, Atlanta, & Newton�s 3rd Revisited, + TIP & TILT""; ""11 Flashback c. 1903. Which treats of Hollywood�s 1st flicker; Seeking Freedom; Opposites Attracting; Fair Usage; Uncle Tom; Syncretism; & Attempted Unions""; ""12 Of Use, Used; The Clansman

Interacting Entities & Denial of Influences Berlin; Picasso; Abbott & Costello; & the Loas Showing Up""; ""Interlude 11""; ""13 1909. An Arctic Episode in Which Is Related the Frigid Adventure of Matthew Henson When, in the Era of White Hopes, He Stands on Top of the World. & in Which Mr. Johnson Meets Mr. Burns under the Sharp Eye & Pen of Mr. London""; ""14 Of What Happens (in a Tuskegee Senior�s Daydreams) When the Galveston Stevedore Meets the Tuskegee Wizard""; ""15 1909�1910. Treats of the Blues, Black Movies, & NAACP Coming into Focus as Whitefolks Act Ugly, Puff, Pow""

""16 In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Befalls Mr. Jeffries When He Encounters 2-Fisted Mr. Johnson . . . & Other Unlooked-for Happenings""""17 1912�1914. In Which Woodrow Wilson, Jack Johnson, & James Reese Europe Figure . . . & Other Unsought Happenings""; ""18 1913�1914. In Which the Smart Money Was Still Not in Coon Futures . . . William Monroe Trotter Confronts Woodrow Wilson, & Other Unpleasant Matters That Deserve to Be Recorded""; ""19 Of D. W. Griffith""

""20 Which Treats, circa 1911, of Trust & Fulfillment, & the First Sally that Booker T. Takes to View the Ingenious Work of D.W.""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780814337172

0814337171

OCLC:

778704200