02960nam 2200625 a 450 991082456090332120240514072132.0979-88-9313-200-71-4696-0243-10-8078-6906-6(CKB)2670000000131347(EBL)819539(OCoLC)768082798(SSID)ssj0000552275(PQKBManifestationID)11380004(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552275(PQKBWorkID)10564338(PQKB)10451040(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244391(MdBmJHUP)muse23470(Au-PeEL)EBL819539(CaPaEBR)ebr10518907(CaONFJC)MIL929328(MiAaPQ)EBC819539(EXLCZ)99267000000013134720110526d2011 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrWhiting up whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance /by Marvin McAllister1st ed.Chapel 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 artsHistoryMinstrel showsHistory.African Americans in the performing artsHistory.791.43/652996073791.43652996073McAllister Marvin Edward1969-1621936MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824560903321Whiting up4052605UNINA