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Title:
Whiting up : whiteface minstrels & stage Europeans in African American performance
Author:
McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-
ISBN:
9780807869062

9781469602431
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
In this work, McAllister defines and explores whiting up, a long tradition in which African American actors, comics, musicians, and even everyday people have assumed white racial identities in a performative context. Whether in 19th century minstrel shows, in stage European performances where black actors take on white roles on the conventional stage, in musicals and satires crafted by a variety of African American dramatists, or in one-person shows by artists like Anna Devere Smith, McAllister argues that this form of cross-racial play creates unexpected intercultural alliances even as it inc.
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