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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Minstrel shows--History.--United States African Americans in the performing arts--History.