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Booker T & them : a blues / as presented by Bill Harris.
Author
Harris, Bill, 1941-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2012.
Description
x, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Poetry
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United States
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Race relations
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History
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Poetry
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Series
Made in Michigan writers series
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Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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 --
Contents note continued: 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 --
Contents note continued: 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.
21.Of Potential, Energy, Counterweight, Counterbalance, Elevator, & Booker T. Going Up the Shaft & Down Again --
Contents note continued: 22.Which Treats of the Stations in Life & Pursuits of the Famous Southern Gentlemen, Masters Griffith & Dixon, & of What Happens When They Sally Forth in Their Twin Tiltings Against the Windmills Obstructing Their U-turn to & Recapturing of Their Imagined Age of Chivalry ("Over-Reaching Themselves" in That Regard, as Sister Ida B. Wells Will Soon Signify); & Other Events That Deserve to be Suitably [ect.]
23.Of What Happens When Birth of a Nation Comes to Tuskegee
24.Wherein Is Related the Rush of Defenders to Griffith's Defense ... Along with Other Events to Do with Mr. Mayer
25.Is Devoted to a Description of BT's Final Sally; His Homecoming, His Last Encounter with His Arch Nemesis, & His Last Considerations & Reconsiderations
Interlude 12
Interlude 13
26.Of Eulogies, in Which Mrs. Wells & Mr. Du Bois Have the Final Word.
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Booker T and them
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ISBN
9780814337165 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814337163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814337172 (e-book)
0814337171 (e-book)
LCCN
^^2011031401
OCLC
747331792
RCP
H - S
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