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Author:

Lott, Eric.

Title:

Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Minstrel shows--United States--History and criticism.
Working class--United States.
United States--Race relations.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Proletariado--EE.UU.
EE.UU.--Relaciones raciales
EE.UU.--Historia--Guerra Civil, 1861 1865

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-303) and index.

Contents:

Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : 'racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine Negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.

Series:

Race and American culture

ISBN:

9780195096415 (pbk.)
019509641X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34411200

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)