| Description |
xiii, 263 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: FROM AFRICAN TO SLAVE, 1619-1830 -- 1.1: Tory Villainy and the Black Victim -- 1.2: The Noble Captive -- 1.3: Whites in Black Face |
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PART 2: THE DEBATE BEGINS, 1830-1861002.1: Slavery in the American Canaan -- 1.2: Novel Reforms -- 2.3: The Minstrel's Song |
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PART 3: BLACK AMERICANS FIGHT BACK -- PART 4: FROM SLAVE TO CITIZEN, 1861-1965 -- 4.1: Life on the New Plantation -- 4.2: The Black Storyteller -- 4.3: Technicolor Dixie |
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PART 5: THE DEBATE CONTINUES, 1965-1980 -- 5.1: Black History Revised -- 5.2: High Expectations and Low Art -- 5.3: The Hollywood Whitewash -- PART 6: Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50 |
| Analysis |
American popular culture Role of African Americans, to 1980 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- Historiography
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African Americans -- Historiography
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Slavery in literature
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African Americans in literature
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African Americans in motion pictures
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Popular culture -- United States
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Culture in motion pictures
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| LC no. |
83040272 |
| ISBN |
0299096300 |
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9780299096304 |
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0299096343 (pbk.) |
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9780299096342 (pbk.) |
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