TY - BOOK AU - Harris,Bill TI - Booker T and Them: A Blues T2 - Made in Michigan Writers SN - 9780814337172 AV - PS3558.A6415 -- B66 2012eb U1 - 811/.54 PY - 2012/// CY - Detroit PB - Wayne State University Press KW - African Americans -- Poetry KW - United States -- Race relations -- History -- Poetry KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 Recorded -- 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 -- After Words UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3416424 ER -