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Strategic Blackface: Re-Deploying American Minstrelsy from Black Arts to #BlackLivesMatter

Description:

This dissertation theorizes the relation between blackface minstrelsy and contemporary Black performance. The project analyzes the use of nineteenth-century blackface minstrel conventions in Black theatrical performances during later eras where its usage seems counter-intuitive: during the Black freedom struggles of the 1960s; within Black feminist and queer performance of the...

Subject:

Performing arts, Black studies, and Theater history

Creator:

Watts, Steven Keary

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16781 and etdadmin_upload_1014341