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When the actor Ted Danson appeared in blackface at a 1993 Friars Club roast, he ignited a firestorm of protest that landed him on the front pages of the newspapers, rebuked by everyone from talk show host Montel Williams to New York City's then mayor, David Dinkins. Danson's use of blackface was shocking, but was the furious pitch of the response a triumphant indication of how far society has progressed since the days when blackface performers were the toast of vaudeville, or was it also an uncomfortable reminder of how deep the chasm still is separating black and white America? In Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture, Susan Gubar, who fundamentally changed the way we think about women's literature as co-author of the acclaimed The Madwoman in the Attic, turns her attention to the incendiary issue of race. Through a far-reaching exploration of the long overlooked legacy of minstrelsy--cross-racial impersonations or'racechanges'--throughout modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism, she documents the indebtedness of'mainstream'artists to African-American culture, and explores the deeply conflicted psychology of white guilt. The f

Author

Susan Gubar

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195350777

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Science, History