Shantyboats and Roustabouts (ePub)
Winner of the Missouri History Book Award
Winner of the John Lyman Book Award
Winner of the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History
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Winner of the James V. Swift Medal for Excellence in Maritime Literature
Winner of the Missouri History Book Award
Winner of the John Lyman Book Award
Winner of the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History
Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy. Gregg Andrews's Shantyboats and Roustabouts uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.
- Autor: Gregg Andrews
- 2022, 336 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- ISBN-10: 080717906X
- ISBN-13: 9780807179062
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2022
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- Größe: 3.62 MB
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