Coloring whiteness : acts of critique in Black performance /

Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theater, visual art, video, TV journalism and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating...

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Main Author: Carpenter, Faedra Chatard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Series:Theater--theory/text/performance.
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