Love & Theft
Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a blackening of America.Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-936163-2
- EAN: 9780199361632
- Produktnummer: 16941338
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'935 KB
- Auflage: 20. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 14 illus.
Über den Autor
Eric Lott is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual.
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