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Oriental, Black, and White The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater

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In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside oriental stereotypes o...

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Main Author: Lee, Josephine (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2022
Subjects:
Black & Asian studies
Theatre studies
History of the Americas
Cross-racial performance
blackface minstrelsy
yellowface
American orientalism
racial stereotypes
all-Black musical
nineteenth-century American theater
racial habit
Aladdin
Shuffle Along
Ira Aldridge
Japanese Tommy
Bert Williams
George Walker
In Dahomey
Abyssinia
Aida Overton Walker
Salome
Chinese laundry
representations of the Philippine-American War
Flower Drum Song
Juanita Long Hall
Princess Sotanki
Sissieretta Jones
Afro-Asian
chop suey
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