Last Darky Bert Williams, Black-On-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

Name: Last Darky Bert Williams, Black-On-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780822336051

ISBN-10: 0822336057

ISBN-13: 9780822336051

Edition: 2005

Authors: Louis Chude-Sokei

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"The Last "Darky"" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. Louis Chude-Sokei contends that Williams's blackface was not a display of internalized racism nor a submission to the expectations of the moment. It was an appropriation and exploration of the contradictory and potentially…

Book details

List price: $102.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/16/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction



Black Minstrel, Black Modernism



Migrations of a Mask



Theorizing Black-on-Black Cross-Culturality



The Global Economy of Minstrelsy



In Dahomey



Claude McKay's Calypso


Notes


Bibliography


Index