02968nam 2200637Ia 450 991078484880332120230718205741.01-280-83416-197866108341670-19-802701-X0-19-535077-4(CKB)1000000000404733(EBL)430903(OCoLC)742332557(SSID)ssj0000232022(PQKBManifestationID)11194975(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232022(PQKBWorkID)10207880(PQKB)11132495(MiAaPQ)EBC430903(Au-PeEL)EBL430903(CaPaEBR)ebr10358411(CaONFJC)MIL83416(EXLCZ)99100000000040473320000808e20001997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRacechanges white skin, black face in American culture /Susan GubarNew York ;Oxford :Oxford University Press,2000.1 online resource (356 pages) illustrationsRace and American culture0-19-513418-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index.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; INDEXWhen 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?Race and American culture.African Americans in popular cultureBlackface entertainersUnited StatesHistory20th centuryArts, American20th centuryAfrican Americans in popular culture.Blackface entertainersHistoryArts, American305.8305.8/00973305.800973Gubar Susan1944-169093MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784848803321Racechanges1260769UNINA