Darkening mirrors : imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance /

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Darkening Mirrors analyzes the complicated relationships between African American identity, as reflected in performances, and the forces of imperialist and racial oppression.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Batiste, Stephanie Leigh, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
Subjects:
1900-1999
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
African American theater > History > 20th century.
African Americans in motion pictures > History > 20th century.
African Americans in popular culture > History > 20th century.
African American arts > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Théâtre noir américain > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains au cinéma > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains dans la culture populaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Arts noirs américains > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African American arts
African American theater
African Americans in motion pictures
African Americans in popular culture
African Americans > Race identity
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Harlem rides the range" : expansion, modernity, and Negro success
  • Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives : exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution
  • Prisms of imperial gaze : swinging the Negro Mikado
  • Lens/body : anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora
  • Ethnographic refraction : exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in The devil's daughter
  • No storm in the weather : domestic bliss and African American performance.

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