Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
“Babylon Girlsis a brilliant book. Consistently pushing multiple fields in new directions, Jayna Brown reveals the centrality of black female performance culture in the making of transatlantic modernity. Her incredibly valuable book demonstrates how African Americans moved in resilient and unpredictable ways—both geographically and performatively—during the early twentieth century.”—Daphne A. Brooks, author ofBodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910