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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940

The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940

George-Graves, N.

Hardcover

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesTheater History

ISBN10: 0312225628
ISBN13: 9780312225629
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 30 2003
Pages: 183
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
The Whitman Sisters were the highest paid act on the Negro Vaudeville Circuit, Theater Owner Booking Association (Toby), and one of the longest surviving touring companies (1899-1942). The group was considered the greatest incubator of dancing talent for Negro shows on or off Toby, and significantly contributed to American theater and dance history. In The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville, Nadine George-Graves provides an historical narrative of their achievements and uses black feminist theories, feminist theories of performance, and theories of class and popular culture to analyze the many layers of performance in which the Whitman Sisters participated, on and off the stage. She shows that these four black women manipulated their race, gender and class to resist hegemonic forces while achieving success. By maintaining a high-class image, they were able to challenge fictions of racial and gender identity.

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