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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture)
Love and Theft Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class - Race and American Culture
Author: Eric Lott
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 bl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195078329
ISBN-10: 0195078322
Publication Date: 10/28/1993
Pages: 314
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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