Slavery and Race: In American Popular Culture

by William L. Van DeBurg

Book Overview

In this ambitious work, William L. Van Deburg offers the first inter-disciplinary survey of American popular culture and its historical attitudes toward slavery and race. Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers, and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299096343
• ISBN13: 9780299096342
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"