Blackface
Series: Object Lessons;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 6 May 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501374012
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 164x120x14 mm
- Weight 140 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 b&w 201
Categories
Short description:
Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century.
MoreLong description:
A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021
Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week
2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)
Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread-sometimes it's tied into a noose-that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
1. Why write this book?
2. Megyn Kelly, Justin Trudeau, or [fill in another public figure's name]
3. What is blackface?
4. Why does blackface exist? Because of Uppity Negros, of course!
5. What is the legacy of blackface? The impact on white actors
6. What is the legacy of blackface? The impact on black actors
7. Conclusion: I can't breathe
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