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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451349303321

Autore

Gubar Susan <1944->

Titolo

Racechanges [[electronic resource] ] : white skin, black face in American culture / / Susan Gubar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-280-83416-1

9786610834167

0-19-802701-X

0-19-535077-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Race and American culture

Disciplina

305.8

305.8/00973

305.800973

Soggetti

African Americans in popular culture

Blackface entertainers - United States - History - 20th century

Arts, American - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; 1. ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE; 2. SPIRIT-MURDER AT THE MOVIES: Blackface Lynchings; 3. MAKING WHITE, BECOMING BLACK: Myths of Racial Origin in the Harlem Renaissance; 4. DE MODERN DO MR. BONES (and All That Ventriloquist Jazz); 5. PSYCHOPATHOLOGIES OF BLACK ENVY: Queer Colors; 6. WHAT WILL THE MIXED CHILD DELIVER? Conceiving Color Without Race; 7. THE EDIBLE COMPLEX: A Postscript; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

When the actor Ted Danson appeared in blackface at a 1993 Friars Club roast, he ignited a firestorm of protest that landed him on the front pages of the newspapers, rebuked by everyone from talk show host Montel Williams to New York City's then mayor, David Dinkins. Danson's use of blackface was shocking, but was the furious pitch of the response a triumphant indication of how far society has progressed



since the days when blackface performers were the toast of vaudeville, or was it also an uncomfortable reminder of how deep the chasm still is separating black and white America?. In Racechange