"The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young …
This work examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multi-ethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy.
Conflict and contradiction : nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy -- "Black or white" : from Jim Crow to Michael Jackson -- The continuum of blackface minstrelsy -- Ghosts : racial phantoms and the lost black self -- Turnaround : love and theft -- Just using it : Eminem, the …
Conflict and contradiction : nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy -- "Black or white" : from Jim Crow to Michael Jackson -- The continuum of blackface minstrelsy -- Ghosts : racial phantoms and the lost black self -- Turnaround : love and theft -- Just using it : Eminem, the …
Harriet Manning argues that the nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy's legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson, in whom minstrelsy's gestures and tropes are embedded. The author further contends that minstrelsy's assumptions and uses have been fundamental to …