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

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Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource
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Physical Medium	polychrome
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Summary	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-Crichlow expands the concept to include a series of symbolic internal journeys within confined and unconfined spaces. Four case studies consider how the featured women-activist Ida B. Wells, singer Sissieretta ""Black Patti" Jones, World War II black female defense-industry workers, and performance artist.
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Subject	African American women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.
	African American women.
	Social conditions.
	African Americans -- Migrations.
	African Americans -- Migrations.
	African American women entertainers.
	African American women entertainers.
	Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Migration, Internal.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	African American women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Effinger-Crichlow, Marta. Staging migrations toward an American West 9781607323112 (DLC) 2014002699 (OCoLC)867020572
ISBN	9781607323129 (electronic book)
	1607323125 (electronic book)
	9781607323112
	1607323117

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

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