Skin acts : race, psychoanalysis, and the Black male performer /

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In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers-Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley-to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stephens, Michelle Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
African American entertainers.
African American men.
Human skin color.
Skin Pigmentation
Artistes du spectacle noirs américains.
Hommes noirs américains.
Couleur de la peau.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American entertainers
African American men
Human skin color
Race relations
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Fleshing Out the Act; Chapter One. Seeing Faces, Hearing Signs; Chapter Two. Bodylines, Borderlines, Color Lines; Chapter Three. The Problem of Color; Chapter Four. In the Flesh, Living Sound; Conclusion. Defacing Race, Rethinking the Skin; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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