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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825157303321

Autore

Effinger-Crichlow Marta

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4920-1263-7

1-60732-312-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/896073078

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.