Skin acts : race, psychoanalysis, and the black male performer / Michelle Ann Stephens.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephens, Michelle Ann, 1969-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
African American entertainers.
African American men.
United States > Race relations.
Human skin color.
Physical Description:xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction fleshing out the act
  • Seeing faces, hearing signs
  • Bodylines, borderlines, color lines
  • The problem of color
  • In the flesh, living sound
  • Conclusion defacing race, rethinking the skin.