Danielle Roper

Hemispheric Blackface

Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalisms, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas.

Produktdetails

• Dissident Acts
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031888
• ISBN-10: 1478031883
• Artikelnr.: 71881785

Autorenporträt

Danielle Roper is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Scenes of Racial Enjoyment in the Hemispheric Fold  1
1. Blackface and Racial Scripts at the Andean Fiesta: Staging the Slave
Past in the Andes  26
2. Doing Antiblackness in the Hemispheric Fold: Blackface Performance in
Miami in the Age of Obama  59
3. Flipping the Racial Script: Blackface Performance as Resistance in
Colombia  87
4. The Postcolonial Below: Roots Theater and Black Enjoyment in Jamaica 
136
Conclusion. Hemispheric Blackface and Its Afterlives  172
Notes  181
Bibliography  213
Index  233