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Author McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-

Title Whiting up [electronic resource] : whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance / by Marvin McAllister.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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Description xiii, 330 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Minstrel shows -- United States -- History.
African Americans in the performing arts -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807835081
9780807869062 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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