“Blackin' up is us Doin' White Folks Doin' Us”: Blackface Minstrelsy and Racial Performance in Contemporary American Fiction and Film

Robert Nowatzki

LIT Literature Interpretation Theory · 2007 · 26 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Over the past fifteen years or so, blackface minstrelsy seems to have made a comeback in American culture. Aside from the recent use of blackface in experimental Manhattan theaters, several scholar...

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