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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Author / Creator: McAllister, Marvin.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
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