Restructuring Respectability, Gender, and Power: Aida Overton Walker Performs a Black Feminist Resistance

Restructuring Respectability, Gender, and Power: Aida Overton Walker Performs a Black Feminist Resistance

<p>Aida Overton Walker, a premier vaudeville entertainer, engaged in a calculated, career-long process to restructure and re-present how African Americans, particularly black women in popular theater, were viewed and perceived in American society. Through a feminist lens this essay will demons...

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Main Author: Veronica Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
Subjects:
african american studies, feminist studies, gender studies, visual studies, performativity, minstrelsy, vaudeville, modernity, racial uplift, resistance, respectability, transnational, race, class
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/50x8g24g

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