Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy

by Robert Nowatzki

In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans, as well as their appropriations of each other's rhetoric, imagery, sentiment, and characterization. Because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807136409
• ISBN13: 9780807136409
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"