Racechanges : White Skin, Black Face in American Culture.

Racechanges : White Skin, Black Face in American Culture.

When the actor Ted Danson appeared in blackface at a 1993 Friars Club roast, he ignited a firestorm of protest that landed him on the front pages of the newspapers, rebuked by everyone from talk show host Montel Williams to New York City's then mayor, David Dinkins. Danson's use of blackfa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gubar, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2000.
Series:Race and American culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
African Americans in popular culture.
Arts, American > 20th century.
Blackface entertainers > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans in popular culture
Arts, American
Blackface entertainers
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; 1. ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE; 2. SPIRIT-MURDER AT THE MOVIES: Blackface Lynchings; 3. MAKING WHITE, BECOMING BLACK: Myths of Racial Origin in the Harlem Renaissance; 4. DE MODERN DO MR. BONES (and All That Ventriloquist Jazz); 5. PSYCHOPATHOLOGIES OF BLACK ENVY: Queer Colors; 6. WHAT WILL THE MIXED CHILD DELIVER? Conceiving Color Without Race; 7. THE EDIBLE COMPLEX: A Postscript; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX.

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