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Author:
Batiste, Stephanie Leigh, 1972-
Title:
Darkening mirrors : imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance / Stephanie Leigh Batiste.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xx, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African American theater--History--20th century.
African Americans in motion pictures--History--20th century.
African Americans in popular culture--History--20th century.
African American arts--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Harlem rides the range" : expansion, modernity, and Negro success -- Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives : exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution -- Prisms of imperial gaze : swinging the Negro Mikado -- Lens/body : anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora -- Ethnographic refraction : exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in The devil's daughter -- No storm in the weather : domestic bliss and African American performance.
ISBN:
082234923X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822349235 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822348985 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822348986 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)741103593
LCCN:
2011027451
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

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