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Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture)
Love Theft Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class - Race and American Culture
Author: Eric Lott
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once appl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195320558
ISBN-10: 0195320557
Publication Date: 8/1/2013
Pages: 320
Edition: Anniversary Edition
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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