Whiting up [electronic resource] : whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance / by Marvin McAllister.

By: McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011Description: xiii, 330 pISBN: 9780807869062 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Minstrel shows -- United States -- History | African Americans in the performing arts -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 791.43/652996073 LOC classification: PN1969.M5 | M33 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : whiting up work -- Liberatory whiteness : early whiteface minstrels, enslaved and free -- Imitation whiteness : James Hewlett's stage Europeans -- Low-down whiteness : a trip to coontown -- Trespassing on whiteness : Negro actors and the Nordic complex -- Estranging whiteness : queens, clowns, and beasts in 1960s Black drama -- White people be like-- : Black solo and racial difference -- Conclusion : problems and possibilities of whiting up.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : whiting up work -- Liberatory whiteness : early whiteface minstrels, enslaved and free -- Imitation whiteness : James Hewlett's stage Europeans -- Low-down whiteness : a trip to coontown -- Trespassing on whiteness : Negro actors and the Nordic complex -- Estranging whiteness : queens, clowns, and beasts in 1960s Black drama -- White people be like-- : Black solo and racial difference -- Conclusion : problems and possibilities of whiting up.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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