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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century...
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English
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'The year was 1899; the place a sweltering tobacco farm in Truevine, Virginia. One day a white man offered candy to George and Willie Muse, two little sons of sharecroppers. Captured into the circus, the brothers would perform for British Royalty and headline shows at Madison Square Garden -- a success rooted in the color of their skin and the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume. Their mother spent 28 years trying to get them back. Truevine...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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"Finalist for the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Book in Recorded or Broadcast Performance" Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Film Studies Program. She is the author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible and Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film. Her edited volumes include Viewing Positions: Ways of...
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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Her bright eyes and jolly face gaze upon us from the covers of old cookbooks, syrup bottles, salt and pepper shakers, and cookie jars. She is a prominent figure in literature, movies and folk art. She is Mammy. But who is Mammy, and where did she come from? And why is she nearly always represented as a large, dark woman with a sonorous and soothing voice, raucous laugh, infinite patience, self-deprecating wit, and implicit understanding and acceptance...
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University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy-stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans-remained arguably the most popular entertainment in North America. A renewed scholarly interest in this contentious form of entertainment has produced studies treating a range of issues: its contradictory depiction of class, race, and gender; its role in the development of racial stereotyping;...
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P.T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman who was said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act - and especially...
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