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Black Bostonians and the politics of culture, 1920-1940
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- Creator
- Lorraine Elena Roses
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 227 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 162534242X, 1613764774, 9781625342416, 9781625342423, 9781613764770, 1625342411
- OCLC
- on1012233627, ocn947146617
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface -- Introduction. A Veiled History -- 1. Where Is Black Boston? Geographies of Experience in the Cradle of Liberty, 1638-1900 -- 2. The Black Bostonian Elites: Color, Class, Culture, and Family, 1880-1920 -- 3. Gender and Culture: Black Women as Arts Organizers, 1917-1930 -- 4. Black Faces on the White Stage: Space and Race, 1925-1930 -- 5. Writing While Black: The Saturday Evening Quill, 1925-1930 -- 6. The Boston Players: Broadway Bound, 1930-1935 -- 7. The New Deal for Boston's Black Theatre: Four Golden Years, 1935-1939 -- Afterword. A Retrospective View of the Boston Renascence, 1920-1940
Subjects
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- African American arts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century.
- African American artists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century.
- African American authors -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century.
- Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century.
- Arts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.
- Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations -- History.