Whiting up : whiteface minstrels & stage europeans in african american performance

In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous.&quo...

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Main Author: McAllister, Marvin Edward
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2011
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