Blackface biography books

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Blackface biography books: Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in

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Blackface biography books: A lighthearted and erudite

Data di pubblicazione. Visualizza tutti i dettagli. Diapositiva successiva dei dettagli del prodotto. Spesso comprati insieme. He had put on a mask of his own, as it were For the ex-colonials, the declaration of an American identity meant the assumption of a mask, and it imposed not only the discipline of national self-consciousness, it gave Americans an ironic awareness of the joke that always lies between appearance and reality, between the discontinuity of social tradition and that sense of the past which clings to the mind.

And perhaps even an awareness of the joke that society is man's creation, not God's. Americans began their revolt from the English fatherland when they dumped the tea into Boston Harbor, masked as Indians, and the mobility of the society created in this limitless space has encouraged the use of the mask for good and evil ever since.

In performance, the application of black makeup dates at least as far back as the medieval period, when guild records show that some of the devils in English religious dramas were portrayed as being black.

Blackface biography books: Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show

In [many versions], Lucifer and his confederate rebels, after having sinned, turn black. The association between blackness and spiritual abasement was thus an element of blackface from the very beginning. This performance was hardly an outlier: One scholar tabulates that between andat least 50 plays were staged with racialized figures, and another scholar counts at least 70 productions with black characters between those years.

The Renaissance theaters were flush with blackface backstage. This mixture is reflected in the plays he wrote for his theatre, the aptly named Globe, a space that announced itself as being interested in the wider world. The tradition of white men applying and employing racial prosthetics to perform as black characters migrated to the American colonies in the late 18th century.

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Blackface biography books: Burnt Cork: Traditions and

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