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Author:

McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-

Title:

Whiting up : whiteface minstrels & stage Europeans in African American performance / Marvin McAllister.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiii, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Minstrel shows--United States--History.
African Americans in the performing arts--History.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0807835080 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807835081 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)711043302

LCCN:

2011020426

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)