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Author George-Graves, Nadine.
Title The royalty of Negro vaudeville : the Whitman Sisters and the negotiation of race, gender and class in African American theatre, 1900-1940 / by Nadine George.
Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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Description xviii, 183 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note Study of the Whitman sisters (Mabel, Alberta, Essie and Alice), incorporating "black feminist theories of performance, and theories of class and popular culture.
Includes chronology and list of people known to have worked with the Whitman sisters.
Bibliography Includes notes (p. 133-159), bibliography (p. 159-175) and index.
Subject Whitman Sisters (Dance group)
African American dancers -- Biography.
Women dancers -- United States -- Biography.
Vaudeville -- Social aspects.
Dance, Black.
LCCN 99088103
ISBN 0312225628
Call No. *MGYB (Whitman) 00-3682
Research Call Number *MGYB (Whitman) 00-3682