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100 1 _aHarris, Bill.
245 1 0 _aBooker T and Them :
_bA Blues.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aDetroit :
_bWayne State University Press,
_c2012.
264 4 _c©2012.
300 _a1 online resource (262 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aMade in Michigan Writers
505 0 _aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Which Treats the New Century in the New Nation &amp -- a Couple of Movers &amp -- Shakers Who Shake &amp -- Move It -- 2 Which Treats of the Station in Life &amp -- the Pursuits of the Famous Colored Gentleman, Booker T. Washington, &amp -- His Sally to Break Bread with President Theodore Roosevelt TR, &amp -- 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 &amp -- Historic, Lame-Brained &amp -- Etymological, Relating to Jim Crow &amp -- His Formidable Rise -- Interlude 3 -- 5 Which Treats of the Last Stop of the Montgomery &amp -- West Point Railroad before BT's Return to Tuskegee, &amp -- Philosophical/Political Musings on Music &amp -- Time Travel -- Interlude 4 -- Interlude 5 -- Interlude 6 -- 6 Which Treats of George Washington Carver (1864-1943, Inventor, Tuskegee Professor) -- Invent, Inventor, Inventing &amp -- Polaris -- Interlude 7 -- Interlude 8 -- 7 Of the Migration Blues, Ship of Fools &amp -- State, &amp -- Moving on Up with Moving on Up -- Interlude 9 -- 8 Of a Booker T. Ditty, &amp -- 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, &amp -- Newton's 3rd Revisited, + TIP &amp -- TILT -- 11 Flashback c. 1903. Which treats of Hollywood's 1st flicker -- Seeking Freedom -- Opposites Attracting -- Fair Usage -- Uncle Tom -- Syncretism -- &amp -- Attempted Unions -- 12 Of Use, Used -- The Clansman -- Interacting Entities &amp -- Denial of Influences -- Berlin -- Picasso -- Abbott &amp -- Costello -- &amp -- the Loas Showing Up -- Interlude 11.
505 8 _a13 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. &amp -- in Which Mr. Johnson Meets Mr. Burns under the Sharp Eye &amp -- 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, &amp -- 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 . . . &amp -- Other Unlooked-for Happenings -- 17 1912-1914. In Which Woodrow Wilson, Jack Johnson, &amp -- James Reese Europe Figure . . . &amp -- Other Unsought Happenings -- 18 1913-1914. In Which the Smart Money Was Still Not in Coon Futures . . . William Monroe Trotter Confronts Woodrow Wilson, &amp -- Other Unpleasant Matters That Deserve to Be Recorded -- 19 Of D. W. Griffith -- 20 Which Treats, circa 1911, of Trust &amp -- Fulfillment, &amp -- the First Sally that Booker T. Takes to View the Ingenious Work of D.W. -- 21 Of Potential, Energy, Counterweight, Counterbalance, Elevator, &amp -- Booker T. Going Up the Shaft &amp -- Down Again -- 22 Which Treats of the Stations in Life &amp -- Pursuits of the Famous Southern Gentlemen, Masters Griffith &amp -- Dixon, &amp -- of What Happens When They Sally Forth in Their Twin Tiltings Against the Windmills Obstructing Their U-turn to &amp -- Recapturing of Their Imagined Age of Chivalry ("Over-Reaching Themselves" in That Regard, as Sister Ida B. Wells Will Soon Signify) -- &amp -- 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.
505 8 _a25 Is Devoted to a Description of BT's Final Sally -- His Homecoming, His Last Encounter with His Arch Nemesis, &amp -- His Last Considerations &amp -- Reconsiderations -- Interlude 12 -- Interlude 13 -- 26 Of Eulogies, in Which Mrs. Wells &amp -- Mr. Du Bois Have the Final Word -- After Words.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans -- Poetry.
650 0 _aUnited States -- Race relations -- History -- Poetry.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aHarris, Bill
_tBooker T and Them
_dDetroit : Wayne State University Press,c2012
_z9780814337165
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aMade in Michigan Writers
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