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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes served to usefully intensify these conflicts. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of A

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Author

Eric Lott

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195320558

Category

social science

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Music

Rating

4.07 / 5 (182 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13