Olio by Tyehimba Jess

Olio, written by Tyehimba Jess, 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner, uses a myriad of poetry forms, songs, and prose to encapsulate the art of music and performing arts, more specifically, to tell the untold stories of black performer's battle to keep their dignity during the era of "Black Face" minstrel shows.

From the Goodreads website: "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".

The book is broken into 16 sections and contains an index at the back of the book referencing various poems, songs, and narratives.  Whimsical illustrations and photos are weaved throughout the book, as well as tables containing historical data, such as Black victims of lynchings by state from 1882-1930.

Can be purchased on Amazon for $17.59
https://www.amazon.com/Olio-Tyehimba-Jess/dp/1940696208/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=olio&qid=1568338950&sr=8-1