The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

by Louis Chude-Sokei

The Last "Darky" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233643x
• ISBN13: 9780822336433
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"