McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-

Whiting up whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance / [electronic resource] : by Marvin McAllister. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. - xiii, 330 p.

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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Minstrel shows--History.--United States
African Americans in the performing arts--History.


Electronic books.

PN1969.M5 / M33 2011eb

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