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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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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
2000, St. Martin's Press
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The royalty of Negro vaudeville: the Whitman Sisters and the negotiation of race, gender and class in African American theatre, 1900-1940
2000, St. Martin's Press, Palgrave Macmillan
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Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African-American Theater, 1900-1940
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-175) and index.
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