Racechanges : white skin, black face in American culture /
Gubar, Susan,
Racechanges : white skin, black face in American culture / Race changes : white skin, black face in American culture Susan Gubar. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. - xxiii, 327 p : ill. ; 23 cm. - Race and American culture .
"First published in 1997 by Oxford University Press ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2000"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index.
This work examines racial impersonations - blackfaces - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. This book examines racial impersonations - i.e., blackface - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. She draws from an extensive range of illustrative work, with examples from high and low culture, from turn-of-the century to present day.
0195134184 pbk
African Americans in popular culture.
Blackface entertainers--History--United States--20th century.
Arts, American--United States.--20th century
Racechanges : white skin, black face in American culture / Race changes : white skin, black face in American culture Susan Gubar. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. - xxiii, 327 p : ill. ; 23 cm. - Race and American culture .
"First published in 1997 by Oxford University Press ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2000"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index.
This work examines racial impersonations - blackfaces - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. This book examines racial impersonations - i.e., blackface - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. She draws from an extensive range of illustrative work, with examples from high and low culture, from turn-of-the century to present day.
0195134184 pbk
African Americans in popular culture.
Blackface entertainers--History--United States--20th century.
Arts, American--United States.--20th century