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Author Roses, Lorraine Elena, 1943- author.

Title Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940 / Lorraine Elena Roses
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Preface -- Introduction. A Veiled History -- 1. Where Is Black Boston? Geographies of Experience in the Cradle of Liberty, 1638-1900 -- 2. The Black Bostonian Elites: Color, Class, Culture, and Family, 1880-1920 -- 3. Gender and Culture: Black Women as Arts Organizers, 1917-1930 -- 4. Black Faces on the White Stage: Space and Race, 1925-1930 -- 5. Writing While Black: The Saturday Evening Quill, 1925-1930 -- 6. The Boston Players: Broadway Bound, 1930-1935 -- 7. The New Deal for Boston's Black Theatre: Four Golden Years, 1935-1939 -- Afterword. A Retrospective View of the Boston Renascence, 1920-1940
Notes "Preface -- Introduction. A Veiled History -- 1. Where Is Black Boston? Geographies of Experience in the Cradle of Liberty, 1638-1900 -- 2. The Black Bostonian Elites: Color, Class, Culture, and Family, 1880-1920 -- 3. Gender and Culture: Black Women as Arts Organizers, 1917-1930 -- 4. Black Faces on the White Stage: Space and Race, 1925-1930 -- 5. Writing While Black: The Saturday Evening Quill, 1925-1930 -- 6. The Boston Players: Broadway Bound, 1930-1935 -- 7. The New Deal for Boston's Black Theatre: Four Golden Years, 1935-1939 -- Afterword. A Retrospective View of the Boston Renascence, 1920-1940
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Arts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century
Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
African American authors -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
African American artists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
African American arts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
African American artists
African American arts
African American authors
African Americans -- Intellectual life
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Arts
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Race relations
Theater
Kulturpolitik
Schwarze
SUBJECT Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations -- History
Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject Massachusetts -- Boston
Boston, Mass.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613764770
1613764774