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Race and American Culture
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Description edit
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Uncle Tom: Add a description of this character.
- Mrs. Stowe
- Jim Crow
- Susanna
- Barnum
- T. D. Rice
- Mose
- Stephen Foster
- George Christy
- Whitman
- Conway
- Dan Tucker
- Aiken
- George Harris
- Frederick Douglass
- Johnson
- Mark Twain
- Fredric Jameson
- Huckleberry Finn
- Dan Emmett
- Nevin
- Mathews
- Massa Rice
- Legree
- Adolph
- Eliza
- Taylor
- Middleton
- Wilentz
- Mike Walsh
- Macready
- Aldridge
- Sam
- Kennard
- Jackson
- Lize
- E. P. Christy
First Sentence edit
The current consensus on blackface minstrelsy is probably best summed up by Frederick Douglass's righteous response in the North Star.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Race and American Culture. (standard series)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA and Great Britain
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0195078322
Page Count: 314
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA and Great Britain
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0195078322
Page Count: 314
Awards edit
- Avery O. Craven Award (1994)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: ML1711 .L67 1993
- Dewey: 496
Subjects edit
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