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Darkest America : black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop
Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and...
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W.W. Norton,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Mel Watkins
- Racial pixies : how Dave Chappelle got bamboozled by the Black minstrel tradition
- Darkest America : how nineteenth-century Black minstrelsy made blackface black
- Of cannibals and kings : how New Orleans' Zulu Krewe survived one hundred years of blackface
- Nobody : how Bert Williams dignified blackface
- I'se regusted : how Stepin Fetchit, Amos, Andy, and company brought black minstrelsy to the twentieth-century screen
- Dyn-o-mite : how Cosby blew up the minstrel tradition, and J.J. put it back together
- That's why darkies were born : how black popular singers kept minstrelsy's musical legacy alive
- Eazy duz it : how black minstrelsy bum-rushed hip-hop
- We just love to dramatize : how Zora Neale Hurston let her black minstrel roots show
- New millennium minstrel show : how Spike Lee and Tyler Perry brought the black minstrelsy debate to the twenty-first century.