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Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class
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Title
Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott.
ISBN
9780195320558 (pbk.)
0195320557 (pbk.)
9780199717682 (updf)
0199717680 (updf)
Edition
20th-anniversary edition.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xiv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 10, 2013
Series
Race and American culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture
Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface
White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race
The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures
"The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction
"Genuine negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s
California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848
Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.
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