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A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War.
African Americans in the performing arts --- Northeastern states --- Race discrimination --- White people --- Blackface entertainers --- Racism in popular culture --- Slavery --- History --- Race relations --- Whites
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When the actor Ted Danson appeared in blackface at a 1993 Friars Club roast, he ignited a firestorm of protest that landed him on the front pages of the newspapers, rebuked by everyone from talk show host Montel Williams to New York City's then mayor, David Dinkins. Danson's use of blackface was shocking, but was the furious pitch of the response a triumphant indication of how far society has progressed since the days when blackface performers were the toast of vaudeville, or was it also an uncomfortable reminder of how deep the chasm still is separating black and white America?
African Americans in popular culture. --- Blackface --- Arts, American --- Arts, Modern --- Algonquin Round Table --- Catharctic Circle (Group of artists) --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Impersonation --- History --- Blackface entertainers --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- Minstrel shows --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows
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Whites --- Racism in popular culture --- Minstrel shows --- Blackface entertainers --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- Popular culture --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- Race identity --- Social aspects --- History. --- United States --- Race relations --- American minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy, American --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows
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The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump, Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader issues: the nature of "white" identity in America, the role of race in transforming immigrants into "Americans," the common experiences of Jews and African Americans that made Jews key supporters in the fight for racial equality, and the social importance of popular culture. Rogin's forcefully argued study challenges us to confront the harsh truths behind the popularity of racial masquerade.
Sociology of minorities --- Film --- United States --- United States of America --- African Americans in motion pictures. --- Blackface entertainers --- Jewish entertainers --- Jews in the motion picture industry --- Jews --- United States. --- Cultural assimilation
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This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare. Jim Crow and antebellum minstrelsy recycled Old World blackface stereotypes of irrationality, ignorance, pride, and immorality. Drawing upon biblical interpretations and philosophy, comic types from moral allegory originated supposedly modern racial stereotypes. Early blackface traditions thus spread damning race-belief that black people were less rational, hence less moral and less human. Such notions furthered the global Renaissance's intertwined Atlantic slave and sugar trades and early nationalist movements. The latter featured overlapping definitions of race and nation, as well as of purity of blood, language, and religion in opposition to 'Strangers'. Ultimately, Old World beliefs still animate supposed 'biological racism' and so-called 'white nationalism' in the age of Trump.
International relations. Foreign policy --- Theatrical science --- History --- imperialisme --- theater --- geschiedenis --- racisme --- kolonialisme --- Race in the theater --- Blackface entertainers --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in the performing arts --- Theater --- Theater. --- Imperialism. --- Theatre History. --- National and Regional Theatre and Performance. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History.
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African Americans in literature --- African Americans --- American literature --- Blackface entertainers --- Blacks in literature --- Minstrel shows --- Popular literature --- Race in literature --- Social classes in literature --- Social classes --- History --- Rice, Tom,
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Blackface entertainers --- Minstrel shows --- Blacks --- Whites --- Race identity --- South Africa --- Social life and customs. --- Race relations. --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- Race question --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people --- American minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy, American --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows
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African Americans in motion pictures --- Afro-Amerikanen in de film --- Afro-americains dans le cinéma --- Amerikanen [Zwarte ] in de film --- Noirs américains dans le cinéma --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de film --- Blackface entertainers --- -Jewish entertainers --- -Jews --- -Jews in the motion picture industry --- -African Americans in motion pictures --- Afro-Americans in motion pictures --- Negroes in moving-pictures --- Motion pictures --- Race films --- Motion picture industry --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Entertainers --- Jewish theater --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrel shows --- Cultural assimilation --- -African Americans in motion pictures. --- Jewish entertainers --- Jews in the motion picture industry --- Jews --- -Blackface entertainers --- African Americans in motion pictures. --- United States --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows
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Blackface entertainers --- Minstrel music --- Minstrel shows --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- American minstrelsy --- Blackface minstrelsy --- Ethiopian operas (Minstrel music) --- Ethiopian songs (Minstrel music) --- Minstrel songs --- Minstrelsy, American --- Minstrelsy, Blackface --- Operas, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Songs, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Popular music --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Entertainers --- History and criticism --- History --- Dixon, George Washington, --- Dixon, G. W. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Social conditions --- Race question --- Race relations --- Dixon, George Washington --- 19th century --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Minstrelsy --- American minstrel music --- Minstrel show songs --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows --- MINSTREL SHOWS --- MINSTREL MUSIC --- BLACKFACE ENTERTAINERS --- DIXON (GEORGE WASHINGTON), 1808-1861 --- U.S. --- RACE RELATIONS --- HISTORY --- SOCIAL CONDITIONS --- 19th CENTURY
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This work examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multi-ethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy.
Blackface entertainers --- Minstrel shows --- Minstrel music --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- American minstrelsy --- Blackface minstrelsy --- Ethiopian operas (Minstrel music) --- Ethiopian songs (Minstrel music) --- Minstrel songs --- Minstrelsy, American --- Minstrelsy, Blackface --- Operas, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Songs, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Popular music --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Mount, William Sidney, --- Blackface --- Racism against Black people --- Anti-Black racism --- Antiblack racism --- Racism against Blacks --- Black people --- Impersonation --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows --- Minstrelsy --- American minstrel music --- Minstrel show songs --- Blackface. --- Racism against Black people.