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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825858303321

Autore

Lott Eric

Titolo

Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / / Eric Lott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-19-936163-0

0-19-971768-0

Edizione

[20th-anniversary ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

Race and American culture

Disciplina

791/.12097309034

Soggetti

Minstrel shows - United States - History

Working class - United States

Racism against Black people

Blackface

United States Race relations

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.

Sommario/riassunto

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