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Joe Turners Come and Gone

Joe Turners Come and Gone. Seth. Bertha. Boardinghouse. Jeremy. Bynum. Selig. Martha Pencoast. Herald Loomis. Mattie. Molly. Zonia Loomis. Rueben. Joe Turner. Summary. Set in 1911 in Pittsburgh Herald Loomis is looking for his wife Martha Pentecost.

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Joe Turners Come and Gone

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  1. Joe Turners Come and Gone

  2. Seth Bertha Boardinghouse Jeremy Bynum Selig Martha Pencoast Herald Loomis Mattie Molly Zonia Loomis Rueben Joe Turner

  3. Summary • Set in 1911 in Pittsburgh • Herald Loomis is looking for his wife Martha Pentecost. • He lives for a week in the boarding house with his daughter. • He contacts Selig and finds Martha. • Bynum tells him he can live happy as he found his song.

  4. August Wilson (1945-2005) • Parents were a white German baker and African-American cleaning lady. • Grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. • Joined the black aesthetic movement and became leader of Black Horizons Theatre in Pittsburgh. • Wrote in cafes and bars to pick characters up into his work.

  5. 'Mill Hand's Lunch Bucket,' by Romare Bearden

  6. W.C. Handy "Joe Turner Blues" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIXrP9s3WcU

  7. Socio-historical context Rightward Political Shift Employment Education and Housing Representations

  8. 1. Political Shift ‘Blacks [could] no longer surrender to easy cynicism, despair, and disgust. Nor […] adopt the prevailing and rampant petty-bourgeois narcissistic self-absorbtion’ —‘The1980s: The Black Movement in the Reagan Era’ in Revolutionary Integration, Richard S. Frazer and Tom Boot, Red Letter Press, 2004

  9. 2. Employment TABLE 1 Average Log Hourly Wages, White Men and Black Men,1980–99 WhitesBlacksDifference (1)(2)(1)(2) Men ages 22–64: 1980–84 . . . . . . 2.188 1.902 .286 1985–89 . . . . . . 2.361 2.053 .308 1990–94 . . . . . . 2.504 2.190 .314 1995–99 . . . . . . 2.639 2.334 .305 Men ages 22–30: 1980–84 . . . . . . 1.968 1.777 .192 1985–89 . . . . . . 2.097 1.869 .228 1990–94 . . . . . . 2.224 2.006 .218 1995–99 . . . . . . 2.327 2.140 .187

  10. ‘By 1999, over 40% of young black male high school dropouts were inprison or jail compared to 10.3% of young white male dropouts [(1)]. High incarceration rates have the effect of concealingpoor young men in conventional labor force statistics.’ — Bruce Western and Becky Pettit, ‘Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration’, American Journal of Sociology: Volume 111 Number 2,University of Chicago, September 2005,pp. 553–78 (1)Western, Bruce. 2002. “The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality.”American Sociological Review,67:477-98.

  11. 3. Education and Housing ‘In the 1980s, equal rights in housing remained the most elusive of civil rights. Despite extensive legislation and regulations aimed at integrating housing, most [African-] American communities remained segregated by the end of the 1980s’ —Lawrence H. Fuchs, The American kaleidoscope: race, ethnicity, and the civic culture, Wesleyan University Press, 1990, p. 416.

  12. 4. Representations ‘[S]ince the cable explosion of the 1980s, Black representations […] have multiplied and diversified significantly’

  13. Dramatic Context • First performances • Wilson’s ‘Century Cycle’ • Realism/ Allegory

  14. Bibliography • http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/theater/newsandfeatures/03wilson.html?pagewanted=all • http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc48.html • http://www.biography.com/people/august-wilson-9533583

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