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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Thelwell, Chinua
Titre(s) : Exporting Jim Crow [Texte imprimé] : Blackface minstrelsy in South Africa and beyond / Chinua Thelwell
Publication : Amherst (Mass.) ; Boston (Mass.) : University of Massachusetts press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-283 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to
cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies
as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally
landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first popular culture export
of the United States, minstrel shows frequently portrayed black characters as noncitizens
who were unfit for democratic participation and contributed to the construction of
a global color line. Chinua Thelwell brings blackface minstrelsy and performance culture
into the discussion of apartheid's nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing
a broad archive of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs
and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts. Exporting Jim Crow highlights blackface
minstrelsy's cultural and social impact as it became a dominant form of entertainment,
moving from its initial appearances on music hall stages to its troubling twentieth-century
resurgence on movie screens and at public events. This carefully researched and highly
original study demonstrates that the performance of race in South Africa was inherently
political, contributing to racism and shoring up white racial identity"
Sujet(s) : Minstrel shows -- Afrique du Sud -- 19e siècle
Minstrel shows -- Afrique du Sud -- 20e siècle
Blackface -- Afrique du Sud -- 19e siècle
Blackface -- Afrique du Sud -- 20e siècle
Relations interethniques -- Afrique du Sud -- Histoire
Noirs -- Identité collective -- Afrique du Sud -- Histoire
Blancs -- Identité collective -- Afrique du Sud -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.12 (23e éd.) = Minstrels shows (États-Unis) et parodies ou satires
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-62534-516-5 (rel.). - ISBN 162534516X (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471201903
Notice n° :
FRBNF47120190
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction. Burnt Cork Nationalism and the Five Waves of Minstrel Globalization
; Foundations: Blackface Minstrelsy in the United States and Across the British Empire,
1830-1862 ; An Empire of Burnt Cork: Blackface Minstrelsy in Pre-Industrial South
Africa, 1862-1872 ; Diamonds, Dandies, and Dispossession: Minstrel Shows During the
South African Mineral Revolution, 1872-1889 ; "Slipping the Yoke": McAdoo's Jubilee
Singers, McAdoo's Minstrels, and Racial Uplift Politics, 1890-1898 ; Brown-on-Black
Masquerade: Cape Town's Coon Carnival ; Afterword. Global Blackface: Toward Transnational
Minstrelsy Studies
