LEADER 02937nam 2200409 450 001 9910595082403321 005 20230502110532.0 010 $a1-4696-6963-3 035 $a(CKB)5840000000091423 035 $a(NjHacI)995840000000091423 035 $a(EXLCZ)995840000000091423 100 $a20230502d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOriental, Black, and White $ethe formation of racial habits in American theater /$fJosephine Lee 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 331 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-4696-6961-7 327 $aOriental, 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.". 330 $a"Josephine Lee looks at how nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial American theater combined Black and Asian stage representations. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musical theater, both white and Black performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside Oriental stereotypes of opulence and deception, comic servitude, and exotic sexuality. Building on scholarship on orientalism in arts and culture and Blackness in minstrelsy, Lee shows how blackface was often associated with working-class masculinity and the development of a nativist white racial identity for European immigrants. Meanwhile, everything 'oriental,' Lee argues, marked what was culturally coded as foreign, feminized, and ornamental, and these conflicting racial representations were often intermingled in actual stage performance"$c-- Provided by publisher. 517 $aOriental, Black, and White 606 $aAfrican Americans in the performing arts$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans in the performing arts$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 615 0$aAfrican Americans in the performing arts$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans in the performing arts$xHistory 676 $a791.08996073 700 $aLee$b Josephine$01352700 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910595082403321 996 $aOriental, Black, and White$93195204 997 $aUNINA