The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville - The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940

In The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville , Nadine George-Graves provides an historical narrative of their achievements and uses black feminist theories, feminist theories of performance, and theories of class and popular culture to analyze the many layers of performance in which the Whitman Sisters participated, on and off the stage.