Starving Where People Can See
The 1939 Bootheel Sharecroppers' Demonstration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14998612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Folino White (Ann Folino White is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. Her scholarship on US drama and performance has appeared in American Drama and Text and Performance Quarterly, and is forthcoming in Performing Arts Resources and Women & Performance. She is finishing a study on “wasting” food as a vital tactic in protests of New Deal agricultural legislation., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 14-32 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram_a_00119 |
| OpenAlex | W2061979955 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Beginning on 10 January 1939, Missouri sharecropping families—1,300 women, men, and children—lived in makeshift shelters and out in the open on US highways 60 and 61. Their strategy of in situ exhibition manipulated conventions of minstrelsy through which media recognized them, successfully shaming landowners as violators of the moral economy
Agriculture · Archaeology · Art history · Exhibition · Political science · Sharecropping · Sociology · American History and Culture · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Photography and Visual Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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