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

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 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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