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Racial geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American theatre /

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"Drawing on original archival research, Racial Geometries examines popular forms of performance -- from musical theatre and minstrelsy to non-theatrical forms like Chinatown tourism -- to expose how American racial formation between the two World Wars was not determined only within national bor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steen, Shannon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Studies in international performance.
Subjects:
Racism and the arts > United States > History > 20th century.
Performing arts > Social aspects > United States.
Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Asians in the performing arts.
Racism in literature.
Race relations in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Asians in literature.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • How Uncle Tom's cabin killed the king of Siam
  • Passing between nations : racial impersonation and transnational affiliation
  • Melancholy bodies : Eugene O'Neill, imperial critique, and Irish assimilation
  • American progress : the paradox of internationalism
  • The geometries of swing : a black Pacific and The swing mikados
  • Coda : the black face of US imperialism.