Black like you : blackface, whiteface, insult & imitation in American popular culture

Black like you : blackface, whiteface, insult & imitation in American popular culture / John Strausbaugh.

An exploration of race relations in American popular culture, focusing particularly on blackface--strange, often scandalous, and now taboo entertainment. Although blackface performance came to be denounced as purely racist mockery, and shamefacedly erased from most modern accounts of American cultur...

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Main Author: Strausbaugh, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2006.
Subjects:
African Americans in popular culture.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Blackface entertainers > United States.
Imitation.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States.
African Americans > Race identity.
Whites > Race identity > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
United States > Race relations.
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Call Number: E185.625 .S77 2006
Status: Available

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