TY - BOOK ID - 78639661 TI - Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class PY - 2013 SN - 0199361630 0199717680 9780199717682 9781299737174 129973717X 9780195320558 0195320557 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Minstrel shows KW - Working class KW - African American minstrel shows KW - Blackfaced minstrel shows KW - Negro minstrel shows KW - African Americans in the performing arts KW - Revues KW - Vaudeville KW - Blackface entertainers KW - History. KW - United States KW - Southern States KW - Confederate States of America KW - Race relations. KW - History KW - Race question KW - Lost Cause mythology KW - Racism against Black people KW - Blackface KW - Impersonation KW - Anti-Black racism KW - Antiblack racism KW - Racism against Blacks KW - Black people KW - American minstrelsy KW - Minstrelsy KW - Minstrelsy, American UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78639661 AB - For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American 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 appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a ""blackening of America."" Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of t ER -