Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy
Robert Nowatzki
Louisiana State University Press, 2010
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In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans.
- ISBN-13
- 9780807136409
- ISBN-10
- 0807136409
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Year
- 2010
- Publication date
- 2010-06-01
- Pages
- 232
- Dimensions
- 231x149x25
- Weight
- 476