TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gubar,Susan
TI  - Racechanges: white skin, black face in American culture 
SN  - 0195134184
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - African Americans in popular culture
KW  - Blackface entertainers
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Arts, American
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
ER  -