Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture)
Eric Lott
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Love and Theft: Blackface Eric Lott epub Love and Theft: Blackface Eric Lott pdf download Love and Theft: Blackface Eric Lott pdf file Love and Theft: Blackface Eric Lott audiobook Love and Theft: Blackface Eric Lott book review Love and Theft: Blackface Eric Lott summary | #3098073 in Books | 1993-10-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.56 x1.08 x6.38l, | File type: PDF | 328 pages||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Ambivalent|By Mark Levine|An unquestionably serious study of an undeniably significant manifestation of race in the 18th century, with ramifications a century later, but a very dense and overly academic text makes this tough going. Somehere in here is an argument that minstrelsy was far from the purely racist phenomenon that many would take it to be then and now, but it often|From Kirkus s|To this original and erudite study, Lott (American Studies/University of Virginia) brings a mass of obscure information and a multidisciplinary approach, interpreting the meaning of black-face minstrelsy to the white working classes who invented a
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackenin...
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