Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class /

Title:

Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class /

Author:

Lott, Eric.

Format:

Book

Institution:

MassArt, Emerson College

Contents:

Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
ML1711 .L67 2013 – Available

MassArt Main
ML1711 .L67 2013 – Available

• Available Temporarily at MassArt Reserves
  On reserve for HART 307-01: The Banjo/Material Culture (Art History: Shales)