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"The Green Book": A Representation of the Black Middle Class and Its Resistance to Jim Crow through Entrepreneurship and Respectability

Monahan, Meagen Kathleen
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During the mid-20th century, African American motorists constantly faced discrimination and prejudice while on the road. "The Negro Motorist Green Book," published from 1936 to 1964, was a vacation guide for black travelers. Through a close reading of "The Green Book's" advertisements, articles, and rhetoric, this paper uses the guide as a lens to examine and discuss the consciousness of its readership, the black middle class.
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Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.
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2013-01-03
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African Americans, Travel guide, Vacation, The Green Book, Middle class
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Putzi, Jennifer
Knight, Arthur
Pope, Jeremy
Schlabach, Elizabeth
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American Studies
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