Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture

Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular CultureBeginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore enteredand forever transformedAmerican popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crows first appearance. Along with

and influential figures in modern history

The volume demonstrates that diaspora is a floating revelation of black consciousness that brings together

hour by hour

Just when things can’t get any worse

nor has he ever been on an airplane

But the team-ups don't end there

In this volume of the MoMA One on One series

The Maha-bharata is an ancient and extraordinary text that claims to tell the immemorial history of South Asia

Collecting EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE (2023) #1-4

Her Baba has drawn into himself

Americans who respond—from Hollywood stars to ordinary citizens—are learning that real solutions require more than charity

they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results