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Staging migrations toward an American West

Effinger-Crichlow, Marta.

Staging migrations toward an American West from Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones / [electronic resource] : Marta Effinger-Crichlow. - Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references.

"Tell my people to go West": Ida B. Wells -- "I'd go [wherever] they said 'show' ": Black Patti's Troubadours -- "Wherever the opportunity was goin' to be I'd a been gone": black female migrants in World War II's defense industry -- "I want to go home": Rhodessa Jones's Medea project: theatre for incarcerated women -- Epilogue: Rhodessa Jones's Medea.

9781607323129 1607323125


African American women--History.--West (U.S.)
Migration, Internal--History--United States--19th century.
African American women entertainers.
African Americans--Migrations.
African American women--Social conditions.--West (U.S.)


Electronic books.

E185.925 / .E44 2014

305.48/896073078