Whiting up [electronic resource] : whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance / by Marvin McAllister.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 330 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 791.43/652996073 23
- PN1969.M5 M33 2011eb
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Strathmore University (Main Library) Online Resource | Link to resource | Not for loan |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : whiting up work -- Liberatory whiteness : early whiteface minstrels, enslaved and free -- Imitation whiteness : James Hewlett's stage Europeans -- Low-down whiteness : a trip to coontown -- Trespassing on whiteness : Negro actors and the Nordic complex -- Estranging whiteness : queens, clowns, and beasts in 1960s Black drama -- White people be like-- : Black solo and racial difference -- Conclusion : problems and possibilities of whiting up.
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