| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the persistence of blackface and the minstrel tradition / Stephen Johnson -- Turning around Jim Crow / W.T. Lhamon Jr. -- Of soundscapes and blackface: from fools to Foster / Dale Cockrell -- Death and the minstrel: race, madness, and art in the last (w)rites of three early blackface performers / Stephen Johnson -- The uncanny history of minstrels and machines, 1835/1923 / Louis Chude-Sokei -- Surprised by blackface: D.W. Griffith and one exciting night / Linda Williams -- "Gentlemen, please be seated": racial masquerade and sadomasochism in 1930s animation / Nicholas Sammond -- From New Deal to no deal: blackface minstrelsy, Bamboozled, and reality television / Alice Maurice -- American ghetto parties and Ghanaian concert parties: a transnational perspective on blackface / Catherine M. Cole. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Whites -- Race identity -- United States.
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Racism in popular culture -- United States.
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Minstrel shows -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Blackface entertainers -- United States.
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Minstrel shows -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Stephen Burge, 1954- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burnt cork. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012 (DLC) 2012007995 |
| ISBN |
9781613762103 (electronic bk.) |
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1613762100 (electronic bk.) |
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1558499342 |
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9781558499348 |
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9781558499331 (library cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1558499334 |
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