Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

by Eric Lott

Book Overview

For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American 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 appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America."

Drawing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195320557
• ISBN13: 9780195320558
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 9.7"