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Jump Jim Crow : Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
Jump Jim Crow Lost Plays Lyrics and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture Author:W. T., Jr. Lhamon Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the compl... more »ex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow's first appearance.« less