The last "darky" : Bert Williams, black-on-black minstrelsy, and the African diaspora / Louis Chude-Sokei.

This book establishes the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century comedian Bert Williams as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already...

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Main Author: Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
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