TY - BOOK N2 - "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them, "--Amazon.com. AB - "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them, "--Amazon.com. T1 - Olio / AU - Jess, Tyehimba, ET - First edition. CN - PS3610.E874 CN - PS3610.E874 ID - 800474 KW - African Americans KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - African Americans in the performing arts KW - African Americans in the performing arts KW - African American entertainers SN - 9781940696201 SN - 1940696208 SN - 9781940696225 SN - 1940696224 TI - Olio / ER -