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

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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

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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
Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship: Racial Impersonation and Immigrant Identity in American Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920

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“Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship” investigates racial and ethnic impersonationsin American popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I focus my analyses on first-generation Irish, Chinese, and Jewish Eastern European artists and their American-born children during a time when the United States had absorbed the highest number of...

Keyword:

Jewish American, Chinese American, Irish American , Racial impersonation, Immigration history , and American popular entertainment

Subject:

Performing arts, Theater history, and American studies

Creator:

De Simone, Maria

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/06/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_844553 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15740

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