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Skin acts : race, psychoanalysis, and the black male performer / Michelle Ann Stephens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stephens, Michelle Ann, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American entertainers.
- African American men.
- Human skin color.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>In <I>Skin Acts</I>, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers-Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley-to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.<BR></div>
- Contents:
- Introduction fleshing out the act
- Seeing faces, hearing signs
- Bodylines, borderlines, color lines
- The problem of color
- In the flesh, living sound
- Conclusion defacing race, rethinking the skin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822356776
- 0822356775
- 9780822376651
- 0822376652
- OCLC:
- 1145420181
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