Eric Lott

Love and Theft

Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 20th Anniversary edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780195320558
• ISBN-10: 0195320557
• Artikelnr.: 38078095

Autorenporträt

Eric Lott is Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface to the 20th-Anniversary Edition by Greil Marcus
* Introduction
* Part I
* 1. Blackface and Blackness: The Minstrel Show in American Culture
* 2. Love and Theft: "Racial" Production and the Social Unconscious of
Blackface
* 3. White Kids and No Kids At All: Working Class Culture and Languages
of Race
* 4. The Blackening of America: Popular Culture and National Cultures
* Part II
* 5. "The Seeming Counterfeit": Early Blackface Acts, the Body, and
Social Contradiction
* 6. "Genuine Negro Fun": Racial Pleasure and Class Formation in the
1840's
* 7. California Gold and European Revolution: Stephen Foster and the
American 1848
* 8. Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production
* Afterword to the 20th-Anniversary Edition by the Author
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index