Ann Folino White

Plowed Under

Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ann Folino White is Head of Theatre Studies in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 133mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780253015402
• ISBN-10: 0253015405
• Artikelnr.: 40753994

Autorenporträt

Ann Folino White is Head of Theatre Studies in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The New Deal Vision for Agriculture: USDA Exhibits at the 1933-34
Chicago World's Fair
2. Milk Dumping Across America's Dairyland: The May 1933 Wisconsin
Dairymen's Strike
3. Playing "Housewife" in an Urban Polonia: The Hamtramck (Mich.) Women's
1935 Meat Boycott
4. Hunger on the Highway in the Cotton South: The 1939 Missouri
Sharecroppers' Demonstration
5. Staging the Agricultural Adjustment Act: The Federal Theatre Project's
Triple-A Plowed Under (1936)
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index