Darkening mirrors : imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance / Stephanie Leigh Batiste.

Author/creator Batiste, Stephanie Leigh, 1972-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxx, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011027451
ISBN9780822348986 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822348985 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822349235 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN082234923X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E185.625 .B375 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold