Ayanna Thompson

Blackface (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021 Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category) Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread-sometimes it's tied into a noose-that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501374036
• Artikelnr.: 60968195

Autorenporträt

Ayanna Thompson is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of Blackface (Bloomsbury, 2021), Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (The Arden Shakespeare, 2018), Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016), Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (2011) and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why write this book?
2. Megyn Kelly, Justin Trudeau, or [fill in another public figure's name]
3. What is blackface?
4. Why does blackface exist? Because of Uppity Negros, of course!
5. What is the legacy of blackface? The impact on white actors
6. What is the legacy of blackface? The impact on black actors
7. Conclusion: I can't breathe
Index

Rezensionen

Examines Hollywood's painful, enduring ties to racist performances.