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Author Batiste, Stephanie Leigh, 1972-

Title Darkening mirrors : imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance / Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 326 pages) : illustrations
Series Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
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
Summary Darkening Mirrors analyzes the complicated relationships between African American identity, as reflected in performances, and the forces of imperialist and racial oppression
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject 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
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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822393757
0822393751
1283414066
9781283414067
9786613414069
6613414069