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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Johnson, Stephen Burge, 1954-
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:	Minstrel shows > United States > History. Blackface entertainers > United States. Minstrel shows > Social aspects > United States. Racism in popular culture > United States. White people > Race identity > United States. United States > Race relations > History.
Physical Description:	xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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.