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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Poetry [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—History—Poetry [Browse]

Series

Made in Michigan writers series [More in this series]

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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Other title(s)

• Booker T and them
• Project Muse UPCC books

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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