02930nam 2200601 a 450 991046096190332120200520144314.01-4696-0243-10-8078-6906-6(CKB)2670000000131347(EBL)819539(OCoLC)768082798(SSID)ssj0000552275(PQKBManifestationID)11380004(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552275(PQKBWorkID)10564338(PQKB)10451040(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244391(MiAaPQ)EBC819539(MdBmJHUP)muse23470(Au-PeEL)EBL819539(CaPaEBR)ebr10518907(CaONFJC)MIL929328(EXLCZ)99267000000013134720110526d2011 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrWhiting up[electronic resource] whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance /by Marvin McAllisterChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (347 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1880-X 0-8078-3508-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : whiting up work -- Liberatory whiteness : early whiteface minstrels, enslaved and free -- Imitation whiteness : James Hewlett's stage Europeans -- Low-down whiteness : a trip to coontown -- Trespassing on whiteness : Negro actors and the Nordic complex -- Estranging whiteness : queens, clowns, and beasts in 1960s Black drama -- White people be like-- : Black solo and racial difference -- Conclusion : problems and possibilities of whiting up.In the early 1890's, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video ""Dangerous."" In this sweeping work, Marvin McAllister explores the enduring tradition of ""whiting up,"" in which African American actors, comics, musicians, and even everyday people have studied and assumed white racial identities. Not to be confused with racial ""passing"" or derogatory notions of ""acting...Minstrel showsUnited StatesHistoryAfrican Americans in the performing artsHistoryElectronic books.Minstrel showsHistory.African Americans in the performing artsHistory.791.43/652996073McAllister Marvin Edward1969-975894MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460961903321Whiting up2455093UNINA