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Title:

Burnt cork : traditions and legacies of blackface minstrelsy / edited by Stephen Johnson.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xii, 266 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Minstrel shows--United States--History.
Blackface entertainers--United States.
Minstrel shows--Social aspects--United States.
United States--History.--History.
Racism in popular culture--United States.
Whites--Race identity--United States.

Other Authors:

Johnson, Stephen Burge, 1954-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the persistence of blackface and the minstrel tradition / Stephen Johnson -- Turning around Jim Crow / W. T. Lhamon Jr. -- Of soundscapes and blackface: from fools to Foster / Dale Cockrell -- Death and the minstrel: race, madness, and art in the last (w)rites of three early blackface performers / Stephen Johnson -- The uncanny history of minstrels and machines, 1835/1923 / Louis Chude-Sokei -- Surprised by blackface: D.W. Griffith and one exciting night / Linda Williams -- "Gentlemen, please be seated": racial masquerade and sadomasochism in 1930s animation / Nicholas Sammond -- From New Deal to no deal: blackface minstrelsy, Bamboozled, and reality television / Alice Maurice -- American ghetto parties and Ghanaian concert parties: a transnational perspective on blackface / Catherine M. Cole.

ISBN:

1558499334 (library cloth : alk. paper)
9781558499331 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558499342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558499348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)768167101

LCCN:

2012007995

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)