Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.
Contents:
How Uncle Tom's cabin killed the king of Siam -- Passing between nations: racial impersonation and transnational affiliation -- Melancholy bodies: Eugene O'Neill, imperial critique, and Irish assimilation -- American progress: the paradox of internationalism -- The geometries of swing: a black Pacific and The swing mikados -- Coda: the black face of US imperialism.
Summary:
Drawing on original archival research, Racial Geometries examines popular forms of performance -- from musical theatre and minstrelsy to non-theatrical forms like Chinatown tourism -- to expose how American racial formation between the two World Wars was not determined only within national borders but traded on and influenced international dynamics --Provided by publisher.
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