Staging Race Black Performers in Turn of the Century America

Name: Staging Race Black Performers in Turn of the Century America
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ISBN: 9780674027602

ISBN-10: 0674027604

ISBN-13: 9780674027602

Edition: 2006

Authors: Karen Sotiropoulos

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Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segregation and heightened racial tensions. As public entertainment expanded through vaudeville, minstrel shows, and world's fairs, black performers, like the stage duo of Bert Williams and George Walker, used the conventions of blackface to appear in front of, and appeal to, white audiences. At the same time, they communicated a leitmotif of black cultural humor and political comment to the black audiences segregated in balcony seats. With ingenuity and innovation, they enacted racial stereotypes onstage while hoping to unmask the fictions that upheld them…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Karen Sotiropoulos is Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Politics, Not Minstrelsy



Minstrel Men and the World's Fair



Vaudeville Stages and Black Bohemia



The "Coon Craze" and the Search for Authenticity



"No Place Like Home": Africa on Stage



Morals, Manners, and Stage Life



Black Bohemia Moves to Harlem


Coda: Hokum Redux


Notes


Index