Whiting up whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2011.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10518907 |
Table of 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.