Long before "women in rock" became a media catchphrase, Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in 1915, she was gospel's first superstar and the preeminent crossover figure of its "golden age" (1945-1965). Everyone who saw her perform said she could "make that guitar talk." Shout, ...
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in "The Souls of Black Folk", the fiction of the colour line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial order. Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial 'passing', a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial ...
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in "The Souls of Black Folk", the fiction of the colour line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial order. Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial 'passing', a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial ...
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