Exporting Jim Crow : Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond / Chinua Thelwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thelwell, Chinua, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blackface entertainers--South Africa.

Blackface entertainers.

Minstrel shows--South Africa.

Minstrel shows.

Black people--Race identity--South Africa.

Black people.

White people--Race identity--South Africa.

White people.

South Africa--Social life and customs.

South Africa.

South Africa--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]

Summary:

Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Burnt Cork Nationalism and the five Waves of Minstrel Globalization

Chapter 1. Foundations: Blackface Minstrelsy in the United States and across the British Empire, 1830-1862

Chapter 2. An Empire of Burnt Cork: Blackface Minstrelsy in Preindustrial South Africa, 1862-1872

Chapter 3. Diamonds, Dandies, and Dispossession: Minstrel Shows during the South African Mineral Revolution, 1872-1889

Chapter 4. "Slipping the Yoke": McAdoo's Jubilee Singers, McAdoo's Minstrels, and Racial Uplift Politics, 1890-1898

Chapter 5. Brown-On-Black Masquerade: Cape Town's Coon Carnival

Afterword: Global Blackface Toward Transnational Minstrelsy Studies

Notes

Index

About the Author

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781613767665

1613767668

OCLC:

1176276397