Racechanges : white skin, black face in American culture / Susan Gubar.
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TextSeries: Race and American culturePublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xxiii, 327 p : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0195134184Other title: Race changes : white skin, black face in American cultureSubject(s): African Americans in popular culture | Blackface entertainers -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Arts, American -- 20th century -- United StatesSummary: 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.
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"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.
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