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Darkest America
Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
By Taylor, Yuval & Jake Austen
- ISBN
- 9780393070989
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on June 15, 2012 | Social Sciences
Over 150 years after the rise of minstrelsy, blackface and grotesque caricature still have the power to shock, sicken, and shame. Yet Taylor (senior editor, Chicago Review Press) and Austen (editor, Rocktober) maintain that despite its many evils, chiefly virulent racial stereotyping, the 19th-century minstrel show provided African American entertainers a platform for innovation and that its themes recur in black performance arts...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
