What is the fine-grained topic of the following text: 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.So, while I lead this choir, I still find thatI'm being led ... Only return the topic.
The examination of the lives of African American performers during the Civil War up to World War I in Tyehimba Jess's book 'Olio'.