Routes of Blackface

Author:

Cole Catherine M.1,Davis Tracy C.2

Affiliation:

1. Catherine M. Cole is Professor of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Stages of Transition (Indiana University Press, 2010) and Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (Indiana University Press, 2001). In addition to recently serving as the Editor of Theatre Survey, she has coedited the book Africa After Gender? (2007), and a special issue of Theatre Survey on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance. She...

2. Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in The Graduate School at Northwestern University. She edits the book series Cambridge Studies in Theatre and Performance Theory and is author of Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 1991), George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre (Praeger, 1994), The Economics of the British Stage 1800–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Stages of Emergency: Cold War...

Abstract

Throughout its history, blackface minstrelsy has been at once potent and slippery, notoriously difficult to control as signification. When one race impersonates another and bills it as entertainment, reception becomes a barometer of ethnic hegemony, interracial politics, and power. The essays in this issue of TDR challenge and contribute to the historiography of blackface by examining previously untapped evidence, questioning current orthodoxies about the role of minstrelsy in US racial formations, and expanding the geographic scope of its performative genealogies.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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