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  title info:
    title: Redface
    sub title: race, performance, and indigeneity
  name:
    name part: Hughes, Bethany
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 271 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 'Redface' unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even more crucially, exclude them from full citizenship in the United States. Arguing that redface is more than just the costumes or makeup an actor wears, Bethany Hughes contends that it is a collaborative, curatorial process through which artists and audiences make certain bodies legible as 'Indian.' By chronicling how performances and definitions of redface rely upon legibility and delineations of race that are culturally constructed and routinely shifting, this book offers an understanding of how redface works to naturalize a very particular version of history and, in doing so, mask its own performativity. Tracing the 'Stage Indian' from its early nineteenth-century roots to its proliferation across theatrical entertainment forms and turn of the twenty-first century attempts to address its racist legacy, 'Redface' uses case studies in law and civic life to understand its offstage impact. Hughes connects extensive scholarship on the 'Indian' in American culture to the theatrical history of racial impersonation and critiques of settler colonialism, demonstrating redface's high stakes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike. Revealing the persistence of redface and the challenges of fixing it, 'Redface' closes by offering readers an embodied rehearsal of what it would mean to read not for the 'Indian' but for Indigenous theater and performance as it has always existed in the United States.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Feathers and face paint -- Indian princesses and the stakes of legibility -- Authentic Indians -- Fixing redface -- Provocation -- Hinushi Inla.
  note: Bethany Hughes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-258) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Redface
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Race in the theater
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Indians in literature
  subject:
    topic: American drama
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN2071.R43 H84 2024
  classification: 792.02/8089
  identifier: 9781479829378
  identifier: 1479829374
  identifier: 9781479829392
  identifier: 1479829390
  identifier: 9781479829408
  identifier: 1479829404
  identifier: 9781479829439
  identifier: 1479829439
  identifier: 2023058778
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240914
    record change date: 20260327143409.0
    record identifier: in00005669880