02937nam 2200409 450 991059508240332120230502110532.01-4696-6963-3(CKB)5840000000091423(NjHacI)995840000000091423(EXLCZ)99584000000009142320230502d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOriental, Black, and White the formation of racial habits in American theater /Josephine LeeChapel Hill :The University of North Carolina Press,2022.1 online resource (x, 331 pages) illustrations1-4696-6961-7 Oriental, black, and white -- The racial refashioning of "Aladdin" -- The lesser roles of Ira Aldridge -- Blackface minstrelsy's Japanese turns -- The tricky servant in blackface and yellowface -- The Chinese laundry sketch -- "Maybe now and then a Chinaman": African American impersonators and Chinese specialties -- Divas and dancers: oriental femininity and African American performance -- Oriental frolics and racial uplift in the early African American musical -- Pleasure domes and journeys home: "In Dahomey," "Abyssinia," "The Children of the Sun," and "Shuffle Along" -- Fantasy islands: staging the Philippines, 1900-1914 -- Racial puzzles, chop suey, and Juanita Long Hall in "Flower Drum Song."."Josephine Lee looks at how nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial American theater combined Black and Asian stage representations. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musical theater, both white and Black performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside Oriental stereotypes of opulence and deception, comic servitude, and exotic sexuality. Building on scholarship on orientalism in arts and culture and Blackness in minstrelsy, Lee shows how blackface was often associated with working-class masculinity and the development of a nativist white racial identity for European immigrants. Meanwhile, everything 'oriental,' Lee argues, marked what was culturally coded as foreign, feminized, and ornamental, and these conflicting racial representations were often intermingled in actual stage performance"-- Provided by publisher.Oriental, Black, and WhiteAfrican Americans in the performing artsHistory19th centuryAfrican Americans in the performing artsHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsAfrican Americans in the performing artsHistoryAfrican Americans in the performing artsHistory791.08996073Lee Josephine1352700NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910595082403321Oriental, Black, and White3195204UNINA