Jumping the Color Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jumping the Color Line write by Susie Trenka. This book was released on 2021-02-02. Jumping the Color Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the first synchronized sound films of the late 1920s through the end of World War II, African American music and dance styles were ubiquitous in films. Black performers, however, were marginalized, mostly limited to appearing in "specialty acts" and various types of short films, whereas stardom was reserved for Whites. Jumping the Color Line discusses vernacular jazz dance in film as a focal point of American race relations. Looking at intersections of race, gender, and class, the book examines how the racialized and gendered body in film performs, challenges, and negotiates identities and stereotypes. Arguing for the transformative and subversive potential of jazz dance performance onscreen, the six chapters address a variety of films and performers, including many that have received little attention to date. Topics include Hollywood's first Black female star (Nina Mae McKinney), male tap dance "class acts" in Black-cast short films of the early 1930s, the film career of Black tap soloist Jeni LeGon, the role of dance in the Soundies jukebox shorts of the 1940s, cinematic images of the Lindy hop, and a series of teen films from the early 1940s that appealed primarily to young White fans of swing culture. With a majority of examples taken from marginal film forms, such as shorts and B movies, the book highlights their role in disseminating alternative images of racial and gender identities as embodied by dancers – images that were at least partly at odds with those typically found in major Hollywood productions.
Legal History of the Color Line
Legal History of the Color Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal History of the Color Line write by Frank W. Sweet. This book was released on 2005. Legal History of the Color Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Annotation. This analysis of the nearly 300 appealed court cases that decided the "race" of individual Americans may be the most thorough study of the legal history of the U.S. color line yet published.
North of the Color Line
North of the Color Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North of the Color Line write by Sarah-Jane Mathieu. This book was released on 2010-11-29. North of the Color Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there.
Life on the Color Line
Life on the Color Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life on the Color Line write by Gregory Howard Williams. This book was released on 1996-02-01. Life on the Color Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the family business failed and his parents’ marriage fell apart, Williams discovered that his dark-skinned father, who had been passing as Italian-American, was half black. The family split up, and Greg, his younger brother, and their father moved to Muncie, Indiana, where the young boys learned the truth about their heritage. Overnight, Greg Williams became black. In this extraordinary and powerful memoir, Williams recounts his remarkable journey along the color line and illuminates the contrasts between the black and white worlds: one of privilege, opportunity and comfort, the other of deprivation, repression, and struggle. He tells of the hostility and prejudice he encountered all too often, from both blacks and whites, and the surprising moments of encouragement and acceptance he found from each. Life on the Color Line is a uniquely important book. It is a wonderfully inspiring testament of purpose, perseverance, and human triumph. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The Crucial Race Question, Or, Where and how Shall the Color Line be Drawn
The Crucial Race Question, Or, Where and how Shall the Color Line be Drawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crucial Race Question, Or, Where and how Shall the Color Line be Drawn write by William Montgomery Brown. This book was released on 1907. The Crucial Race Question, Or, Where and how Shall the Color Line be Drawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
