Booker T & them : a blues / as presented by Bill Harris.

Author
Harris, Bill, 1941- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2012.
Description
x, 246 p. ; 22 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
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.
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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