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Love and Theft : : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

Lott, Eric. Book - 2013 Black Studies 791.12 Lo 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft: "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all: working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America: popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit": early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine negro fun": racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution: Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes: racial melodrama and modes of production.

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Race and American culture.



PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xiv, 327 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780195320558
0195320557

SUBJECTS
Minstrel shows -- History.
Working class.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.