Sambo : the rise & demise of an American jester / / Joseph Boskin
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| Autore: |
Boskin Joseph
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| Titolo: |
Sambo : the rise & demise of an American jester / / Joseph Boskin
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1986 |
| ©1986 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306/.484/08996073 |
| Soggetto topico: | Popular culture - United States |
| Sambo (Fictitious character) | |
| African American entertainers | |
| African Americans in the performing arts | |
| Fools and jesters - United States | |
| Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | An epitaph read backward in time -- As his name is, so is he -- Ladies and gentlemen: your attention please! Would you welcome the first American entertainer, Sambo!! -- And performing today at balls, circuses, theatres, picnics, churches, schools, and prisons- the indomitable, spirited, laughing- Jim Crow, esquire! -- Impressions in boldface -- Prismatic projections -- The camera eye -- The radio ear: the odd-couples connection -- The fool as an emancipator. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Traces the history of comic stereotype of the Black performer and explains how it was finally eradicated. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sambo |
| ISBN: | 1-280-52360-3 |
| 9786610523603 | |
| 0-19-536353-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451134803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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