Coloring Whiteness : Acts of Critique in Black Performance /

"Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theater, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carpenter, Faedra Chatard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
White people > Race identity.
Race relations.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African American theater.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
Noirs americains dans les arts du spectacle.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Theâtre noir americain > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African American theater > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Dramaturgies of Whiteness in Contemporary African American Performance; Chapter One. Douglas Turner Ward's Play on Whiteness: Day of Absence on America's Public Stages; Chapter Two. Staging Hegemonic Whiteness: The Bluest Eye and the Performative Paradoxes of (In)visibility; Chapter Three. Whiteness as "Becoming":The Corporeal Crossovers of Daniel Tisdale and Michael Jackson; Chapter Four. "Mixing It Up": Enacting Whiteness in the Comedic World of Dave Chappelle
  • Chapter Five. "Sounding Off on Sounding White": Aural Whiteness, Linguistic Whiteface, and the Economics of OpportunityCoda: Whiteface to Postrace? The Artful Interrogations of Jefferson Pinder; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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