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- catalog abstract ""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 a 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 at a time when black performers were usually forced to play to narrow definitions of black life and culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11642135.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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 a 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-175) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: Surviving the Silence -- Setting The Stage: Beginnings, Influences, and a Performance Reconstruction -- Race, Gender, and Class: The Politics of Performance and Management -- Toby, the Depression, and Beyond: The Later Years.".
- catalog description "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 at a time when black performers were usually forced to play to narrow definitions of black life and culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 183 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312225628".
- catalog identifier "0333915054 (Macmillan)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "792.7/092/396073 B 21".
- catalog subject "African American dancers Biography.".
- catalog subject "GV1785. A1 G46 2000".
- catalog subject "GV1785.A1 G46 2000".
- catalog subject "Vaudeville Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Whitman Sisters (Dance group)".
- catalog subject "Women dancers United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: Surviving the Silence -- Setting The Stage: Beginnings, Influences, and a Performance Reconstruction -- Race, Gender, and Class: The Politics of Performance and Management -- Toby, the Depression, and Beyond: The Later Years.".
- catalog title "The royalty of Negro vaudeville : the Whitman Sisters and the negotiation of race, gender and class in African American theater, 1900-1940 / Nadine George-Graves.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".