The last "darky" : Bert Williams, black-on-black minstrelsy, and the African diaspora

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Williams, Bert, > 1874-1922 > Criticism and interpretation.
Williams, Bert, > 1874-1922
Blackface entertainers > United States.
Minstrel shows > United States > History > 20th century.
Blackface entertainers.
Minstrel shows.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Black minstrel, black modernism
  • Migrations of a mask
  • Theorizing black-on-black cross-culturality
  • The global economy of minstrelsy
  • In Dahomey
  • Claude McKay's calypso.

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