Blackface

✍ Scribed by Ayanna Thompson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 141
Series: Object Lessons
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread-sometimes it's tied into a noose-that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Why Write This Book?
2 Megyn Kelly, Justin Trudeau, or (Fill in Another Public Figure’s Name)
3 What Is Blackface?
4 Why Does Blackface Exist? Because of Uppity Negros, of Course!
5 What Is the Legacy of Blackface? The Impact on White Actors
6 What Is the Legacy of Blackface? The Impact on Black Actors
7 Conclusion: I Can’t Breathe
Notes
Index

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