Whiting Up : Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance.
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous.&quo...
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011. |
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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