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The last "darky" : Bert Williams, black-on-black minstrelsy, and the African diaspora by Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><i>The Last 'Darky'</i> establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlemâs Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. Louis Chude-Sokei contends that Williamsâs blackface was not a display of internalized racism nor a submission to the expectations of the moment. It was an appropriation and exploration of the contradictory and potentially liberating power of racial stereotypes.</p><p>Chude-Sokei makes the crucial argument that Williamsâs minstrelsy negotiated the place of black immigrants in the cultural hotbed of New York City and was replicated throughout the African diaspora, from the Caribbean to Africa itself. Williams was born in the Bahamas. When performing the 'darky,' he was actually masquerading as an African American. This black-on-black minstrelsy thus challenged emergent racial constructions equating 'black' with

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Author

Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967-

Publisher

Duke University Press, c2006.

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822336433

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Sports, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14