Love and theft [electronic resource] : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott.

By: Lott, EricContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Race and American culturePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: 20th-anniversary edDescription: xiv, 327 p. : illISBN: 9780199717682 (electronic bk.); 9780199717682 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Minstrel shows -- United States -- History | Working class -- United States | United States -- Race relations | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 791/.12097309034 LOC classification: ML1711 | .L67 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

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