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PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478031883
ISBN-139781478031888
eBay Product ID (ePID)11070916769
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameHemispheric Blackface : Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
SubjectTheater / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science
AuthorDanielle Roper
SeriesDissident Acts Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-038042
ReviewsBy considering the Americas as an expansive geographic unit, Danielle Roper demonstrates how a black studies methodology cuts through the foundational fictions that obscure or romanticize the structural and cultural implications of the afterlives of slavery and colonization. In so doing, she disrupts what otherwise might be considered area studies or nation-centered models by showing how multiracial societies rely on practices and tropes of anti-blackness. An outstanding and timely book., Most studies of blackface privilege the nation and its history to understand the rise, popularity, and aesthetics of blackface performance. What makes Danielle Roper's book so special is how it looks across spaces in the Americas to think about blackface comparatively in places many readers might not expect. It helps chart a new course for understanding the contemporary uses of blackface as well as the broader political currents in the Americas regarding race and multiculturalism. This major work will come to be seen as a model for hemispheric approaches to the study of cultural production in the Americas., By considering the Americas as an expansive geographic unit, Danielle Roper demonstrates how a black studies methodology cuts through the foundational fictions that obscure or romanticize the structural and cultural implications of the afterlives of slavery and colonization. In so doing, she disrupts what otherwise might be considered area studies or nation-centered models by showing how multiracial societies rely on practices and tropes of antiblackness. An outstanding and timely book.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal306.48480899607
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Scenes of Racial Enjoyment in the Hemispheric Fold 1 1. Blackface and Racial Scripts at the Andean Fiesta: Staging the Slave Past in the Andes 26 2. Doing Antiblackness in the Hemispheric Fold: Blackface Performance in Miami in the Age of Obama 59 3. Flipping the Racial Script: Blackface Performance as Resistance in Colombia 87 4. The Postcolonial Below: Roots Theater and Black Enjoyment in Jamaica 136 Conclusion. Hemispheric Blackface and Its Afterlives 172 Notes 181 Bibliography 213 Index 233
SynopsisIn Hemispheric Blackface , Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje , creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Challenging both the dominance of the US minstrel tradition and the focus on the nation in blackface studies, Roper maps a hemispheric network of racial impersonation in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, and Miami. She analyzes blackface performance in the aftermath of the turn to multiculturalism in Latin America, the emergence of modern blackness in Jamaica, and the rise of Barack Obama in the United States, showing how blackface remains embedded in cultural entertainment. Contending that the Americas are linked by repeating nationalist fictions of postracialism, colorblindness, and myths of racial democracy, Roper assesses how acts of impersonation mediate the ongoing power of these narratives and enable people to comprehend advancements and reversals in racial equality. Rather than simply framing blackface as liberatory or oppressive, Roper traces its emergence from a shared history of slavery and the varied politics of racial enjoyment throughout the hemisphere., Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalisms, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas.
LC Classification NumberPN2071.B58R67 2025
