Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow (eBook)

Staking Claims in the American Heartland

DaMaris B. Hill (Autor)

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2016
146 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9788-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The essays in this collection examine instances of racial and gender oppression in the American heartland in the twentieth century and directly engage with the ways in which race, gender, and intersectional identities are remembered, expressed, and contextualized.

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The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays in this collection examine instances of racial and gender oppression in the American heartlandwhich is conceived of here as having a specific cultural significance which resists diversityin the twentieth century, instances which have often been ignored or overshadowed in typical historical narratives. The contributors explore the intersections of suffrage, race relations, and cultural histories, and add to an ongoing dialogue about representations of race and gender within the context of regional and national narratives

Autor

DaMaris B. Hill is assistant professor of English and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky.

Inhalt

Introduction, DaMaris B. HillChapter 1: Excerpt from Delaware Diaspora: Memoir of My Delaware Grandfather, Denise Low-WesoChapter 2: From Mexican to Mexican-American in Kansas City, 1914–1940, Valerie MendozaChapter 3: Singing and Swinging in the Heartland: Black Women Musicians Making Music in the Midwest during the Jazz Age, Tammy L. KernodleChapter 4: Negotiating the Middle Border: Ambivalent Rhetorics of White Anti-Racism in 1920s Kansas, Jason Barrett-FoxChapter 5: No Place like Home: Chicago’s Black Metropolis and the Johnson Publishing Offices, 1942–1975, James WestChapter 6: From Vivi with Love: Studying the Great Migration, Chamara J. KwakyeConclusion, DaMaris B. Hill

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2016
• Co-Autor: Jason Barrett-Fox, DaMaris B. Hill, Tammy L. Kernodle, Denise Low-Weso, Valerie Mendoza, James West
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 4 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: American History • Memory • Race • Twentieth-Century History
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9788-6 / 0739197886
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9788-2 / 9780739197882