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  • Riding Jane Crow

    African American Women on the American Railroad

    par Miriam Thaggert ...
    Collections series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930: Volume 9

    Modifié par Miriam Thaggert, Rachel Farebrother ...
    Collections series African American Literature in Transition
    African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between ... En savoir plus

    $123.99 CAD

  • A History of the Harlem Renaissance

    Modifié par Rachel Farebrother, Miriam Thaggert ...
    The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    Riding Jane Crow

    African American Women on the American Railroad

    par Miriam Thaggert ...
    Lu par Madeline McCray ...

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    Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Harlem Renaissance

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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

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  • The New Era

    American Thought and Culture in the 1920s

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