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Available
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Publication
Oxford University Press, USA (1993), Edition: illustrated edition, Hardcover, 328 pages
Description
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a ""blackening of America."" Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of t
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Awards
Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (Winner — 1993)
Bancroft Dissertation Award (1991)
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Physical description
328 p.; 9.06 inches
ISBN
019509641X / 9780195096415