Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-9787-5 • Hardback • June 2016 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
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978-0-7391-9788-2 • eBook • June 2016 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
DaMaris B. Hill is assistant professor of English and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky.
Introduction, DaMaris B. Hill
Chapter 1: Excerpt from Delaware Diaspora: Memoir of My Delaware Grandfather, Denise Low-Weso
Chapter 2: From Mexican to Mexican-American in Kansas City, 1914–1940, Valerie Mendoza
Chapter 3: Singing and Swinging in the Heartland: Black Women Musicians Making Music in the Midwest during the Jazz Age, Tammy L. Kernodle
Chapter 4: Negotiating the Middle Border: Ambivalent Rhetorics of White Anti-Racism in 1920s Kansas, Jason Barrett-Fox
Chapter 5: No Place like Home: Chicago’s Black Metropolis and the Johnson Publishing Offices, 1942–1975, James West
Chapter 6: From Vivi with Love: Studying the Great Migration, Chamara J. Kwakye
Conclusion, DaMaris B. Hill
A thoughtful and extensive exploration of connections between the suffrage movement and the Civil Rights movement, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow is a welcome contribution to college library American History and Sociology collections.
— Midwest Book Review
The American Heartland just got bigger—the essays collected in this volume take intersectional approaches to race, gender, sexuality, and politics to expand our view on lives and cultures in the Midwest.
— Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas