Love and theft blackface minstrelsy and the American working class /

Lott, Eric.

Love and theft blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / [electronic resource] : Eric Lott. - 20th-anniversary ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - xiv, 327 p. : ill. - Race and American culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780199717682 (electronic bk.) 9780199717682 (electronic bk.)




Minstrel shows--History.--United States
Working class--United States.


United States--Race relations.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.


Electronic books.

ML1711 / .L67 2013

791/.12097309034