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The problem of the color(blind) : racial transgression and the politics of black performance / Brandi Wilkins Catanese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Catanese, Brandi Wilkins, 1974-
- Series:
- Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
- Theater--theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in the performing arts.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--United States.
- Performing arts.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Colorblind casting (Performing arts).
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""1/ Bad Manners: Talking about Race""; ""2/ The End of Race or the End of Blackness? August Wilson, Robert Brustein, and Color-Blind Casting""; ""3/ The Limits of Color Blindness: Interracial Sexuality, Denzel Washington, and Hollywood Film""; ""4/ Transgressing Tradition: Suzan-Lori Parks and Black Performance (as) Theory""; ""5/ Are We There Yet? Race, Redemption, and Black. White. ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-73314-5
- 0-472-02792-1
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