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Oriental, Black, and White: the formation of racial habits in american theater./

In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside oriental stereotypes o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Josephine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
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