Love and Theft

by Eric Lott

Book Overview

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 usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019509641X
• ISBN13: 9780195096415
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"