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1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Made in Michigan writers series
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Made in Michigan writers series.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: In the Beginning""; ""Chapter 1 Treats of the Parallel Rise of the Industrial Revolution, the Blues, Radical Abolitionism & Mechanical & Martial Time""; ""Chapter 2 Treats on the Parallel Rise of Radical Abolitionism, American-Born Blackface, Immigrant Upper-Lower & Lower-Middle Classes, and Their Indoctrination in the Ways of American Life & Free-Time""; ""Chapter 3 A Brief Passage on the Emergence of the Democratic Party, Daddy Rice, Uncle Sam, Indians & “Discovery, � 1832"" |
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""Chapter 4 Treats of Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Invention of the Common Man, the Jacksonian Era, and Indians Conceding Their Lands""""Chapter 5 The Middle Passage: P.T. Barnum, History as Entertainment in Multi Voices, 1835�1842""; ""Chapter 6 A Middle Passage, or Bridge: Traversed by Frederick Douglass, William Henry Lane, and a Sense of the Increased Speed of Things, 1843�1848""; ""Chapter 7 Daddy Rice Runs the Doo Doo Down: Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown Turn Up the Heat, 1848�1870""; ""Chapter 8 The Civil War & Beyond Back to Where We Began: And Notions of High & Low Culture. |
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Dividing to Conquer, 186?�1871""""Chapter 9 Reprise of the Bridge Crossing Theme: A Variation with a Blues Tinge""; ""Chapter 10 Reconstruction & Beyond: William T. Sherman, Eadweard Muybridge & Syncopated Loco-Motion of Moving Images & the Transcontinental Railroad, 1871�1877""; ""Chapter 11 Jim Crow Crosses Over from Entertainment to Law, the Parallel Rise of Klan-Whiteface in White Face & Black Faced Blackface & Slave Spirituals"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Race relations -- History -- Poetry.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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African Americans. |
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Minstrel music.
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Minstrel music. |
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Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Birth of a notion |
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Half ain't never been told |
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Print version: Harris, Bill, 1941- Birth of a notion; or, the half ain't never been told. Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©2010 9780814334089 (DLC) 2009033732 (OCoLC)432595153 |
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9780814335277 (electronic book) |
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0814335276 (electronic book) |
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9780814334089 |
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0814334083 |
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