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Strategic Blackface: Re-Deploying American Minstrelsy from Black Arts to #BlackLivesMatter

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This dissertation theorizes the relation between blackface minstrelsy and contemporary Black performance. The project analyzes the use of nineteenth-century blackface minstrel conventions in Black theatrical performances during later eras where its usage seems counter-intuitive: during the Black freedom struggles of the 1960s; within Black feminist and queer performance of the...

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Performing arts, Black studies, and Theater history

Creator:

Watts, Steven Keary

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16781 and etdadmin_upload_1014341
His Grotesque Swagger; or, Morgan Benson, The Black Joke, and the Nineteenth-Century Target Parade

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This dissertation examines anti-Black race-based ideologies prevalent in early American musical theatre through a multi-faceted case study concerning Morgan Benson, a child actor of the early musical theatre stage, Target Parades of the long nineteenth-century, and The Black Joke. This is an excavation project, seeking to unearth conceptual underpinnings for...

Keyword:

parade, black, joke, and target

Subject:

Black studies, Theater history, and American studies

Creator:

Overton-Mann, Dwayne Keith

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

09/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_930765 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16283

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