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Birth of a Notion; Or, The Half Ain't Never Been Told : A Narrative Account With Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy and of America & the True Relation Thereof

Harris, Bill Book Download - 2010 Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Looks at black identity in American history and popular culture from a performative African American perspective. This work takes readers on a tour of 19th-century American history, from the 1830s and the rise of the abolitionist movement, to Reconstruction and the Industrial Revolution in the 1860s, and to the beginning of the 20th century.

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SERIES
Made in Michigan Writers Series


PUBLISHED
Wayne State University Press
Year Published: 2010
Language: English
Format: Book Download

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0814335276
9780814335277

SUBJECTS
United States -- Race relations -- History -- Poetry.
African Americans -- Poetry.
Minstrel music.