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_aJohnson, Howard Eugene _eautore |
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_aA Dancer in the Revolution : _bStretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club / _cHoward Eugene Johnson. |
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_aNew York, NY : _bFordham University Press, _c[2014] |
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| 300 | _a1 online resource (216 p.) | ||
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_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tForeword -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tTimeline -- _tPart I -- _t1 Early Days -- _t2 Harlem and the Cotton Club -- _t3 Moving Up -- _t4 Show Biz -- _t5 Joining the Party -- _tPart II -- _t6 The Young Communist League -- _t7 The War Years -- _t8 Back Home -- _t9 La Lucha Continua -- _tPart III -- _t10 Starting Over -- _t11 Malimwu -- _t12 The Cotton Club Revisited -- _t13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii -- _t14 Paris to Texas and Home Again -- _tNotes -- _tFurther Reading -- _tMap of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and ’40s -- _tHoward E. Johnson’s Curriculum Vitae -- _tIndex |
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| 520 | _aThe life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed “Stretch” because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson’s long-awaited memoir traces his path from firstborn of a multiclass/multiethnic” family in New Jersey to dancer in Harlem’s Cotton Club to communist youth leader and, later, professor of Black studies. A Dancer in the Revolution is a powerful statement about Black resilience and triumph amid subtle and explicit racism in the United States.Johnson’s engaging, beautifully written memoir provides a window into everyday life in Harlem—neighborhood life, arts and culture, and politics—from the 1930s to the 1970s, when the contemporary Black community was being formed. A Dancer in the Revolution explores Johnson’s twenty-plus years in the Communist Party andilluminates in compelling detail how the Harlem branch functioned and flourished in the 1930s and ’40s. Johnson thrived as a charismatic leader, using the connections he built up as an athlete and dancer to create alliances between communist organizations and a cross-section of the Black community. In his memoir, Johnson also exposes the homoerotic tourism that was a feature of Harlem’s nightlife in the 1930s. Some of America’s leading white literary, musical, and artistic figures were attracted to Harlem not only for the community’s artistic creativity but to engage in illicit sex—gay and straight—with their Black counterparts.A Dancer in the Revolution is an invaluable contribution to the literature on Black political thought and pragmatism. It reveals the unique place that Black dancers and artists hold in civil rights pursuits and anti-racism campaigns in the United States and beyond. Moreover, the life of “Stretch” Johnson illustrates how political activism engenders not only social change but also personal fulfillment, a realization of dreams not deferred but rather pursued and achieved. Johnson’s journey bears witness to critical periods and events that shaped the Black condition and American society in the process. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | _aIn English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) | |
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_aCommunists _zUnited States _vBiography. |
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_aSocial reformers _zUnited States _vBiography. |
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_aTap dancers _zUnited States _vBiography. |
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| 650 | 4 | _aAfrican American Studies. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aBiography. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aHistory. | |
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_aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. _2bisacsh |
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| 653 | _aAfrican American History. | ||
| 653 | _aAfrican American. | ||
| 653 | _aAfrican Diaspora. | ||
| 653 | _aAmerican History. | ||
| 653 | _aAmsterdam News. | ||
| 653 | _aCommunist. | ||
| 653 | _aCotton Club. | ||
| 653 | _aDuke Ellington. | ||
| 653 | _aEthnic Studies. | ||
| 653 | _aHarlem. | ||
| 653 | _aMcCarthyism. | ||
| 653 | _aSmith Act Trial. | ||
| 653 | _aWinnie Johnson. | ||
| 653 | _aWorld War II. | ||
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_aJohnson, Wendy _eautore |
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_aNaison, Mark D. _eautore |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823256563?locatt=mode:legacy |
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