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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…reading the autobiography of American communism -- Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism -- Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America -- The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations -- Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930 -- Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. …”
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…reading the autobiography of American communism -- Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism -- Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America -- The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations -- Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930 -- Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. …”
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Legendary Ladies of Texas /
Published 1994Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Legendary Ladies of Texas /
Published 1994Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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The Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
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The Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Butler's Kindred and Gayl Jone's Corregidora sing the time travel blues / Jennifer E. Henton -- Beyond the history we know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh rethink science fiction tradition / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Bubbling champagne power trip / Nisi Shawl -- Of course people can fly / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: a close encounter with my pseudonym / Jarla Tangh -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. …”
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May '68 : Shaping Political Generations /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…; Redefining the role of parents; Anne: remaining faithful to the break; 1949-1968: the baby boom blues; 1970-1974: Maoism, becoming an etabli, theatre, communal living and motherhood; Sparking a peasant revolt: from disillusion to disillusion…”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Butler's Kindred and Gayl Jone's Corregidora sing the time travel blues / Jennifer E. Henton -- Beyond the history we know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh rethink science fiction tradition / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Bubbling champagne power trip / Nisi Shawl -- Of course people can fly / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: a close encounter with my pseudonym / Jarla Tangh -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. …”
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May '68 : Shaping Political Generations /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…; Redefining the role of parents; Anne: remaining faithful to the break; 1949-1968: the baby boom blues; 1970-1974: Maoism, becoming an etabli, theatre, communal living and motherhood; Sparking a peasant revolt: from disillusion to disillusion…”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Buis -- A transnational empire built on law : the case of the commercial jurisprudence of the House of Trade of Seville (1583-1598) / Ana Belem Fernández Castro -- Entangled up in red, white, and blue : Spanish West Florida and the American territory of Orleans, 1803-1810 / Seán Patrick Donlan -- German colonial law and comparative law, 1884-1919 Jakob Zollmann -- Napoleon in America? …”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Buis -- A transnational empire built on law : the case of the commercial jurisprudence of the House of Trade of Seville (1583-1598) / Ana Belem Fernández Castro -- Entangled up in red, white, and blue : Spanish West Florida and the American territory of Orleans, 1803-1810 / Seán Patrick Donlan -- German colonial law and comparative law, 1884-1919 Jakob Zollmann -- Napoleon in America? …”
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Builders of Ohio : A Biographical History /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Little Turtle, Blue Jacket, and the Second Tribal Confederation, 1783-1795 / Allan R. …”
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Builders of Ohio : A Biographical History /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Little Turtle, Blue Jacket, and the Second Tribal Confederation, 1783-1795 / Allan R. …”
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World : Blighted Bodies /
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World : Blighted Bodies /
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