Race, Gender & Sexuality in the 1920s

Readings

• Hazel Carby, “‘It Just Be’s Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women’s Blues,” Radical America 20, no. 4 (1986): 9-24. [Canvas]
• Matt Guterl, “Josephine Baker’s Colonial Pastiche,” Black Camera (Summer 2010): 25-37. [Canvas]

Music

Advertisements of Ma Rainey’s records from the Chicago Defender: 

“Prove It on Me Blues,” Chicago Defender, September 22, 1928, 7; and

“Rough & Tumble Blues,” Chicago Defender, October 31, 1925, 7.