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Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lott, Eric
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [1995]
Series:Race and American culture.
Subjects:
Minstrel shows > United States > History and criticism.
Working class > United States.
United States > Race relations.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Proletariado > EE.UU.
EE.UU. > Relaciones raciales.
EE.UU. > Historia > Guerra Civil, 1861 1865.
Table of Contents:
  • Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture
  • Love and theft : 'racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface
  • White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race
  • The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures
  • "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction
  • "Genuine Negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s
  • California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848
  • Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.