Sambo : the rise & demise of an American jester / Joseph Boskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boskin, Joseph.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sambo (Fictitious character).

African American entertainers--Biography.

African American entertainers.

African Americans in the performing arts.

Fools and jesters--United States.

Fools and jesters.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Mitchell, Joseph, 1908-1996 (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Sambo : the rise and demise of an American jester.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Contents:

An Epitaph Read Backward in Time

As His Name Is, So Is He

Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Attention, Please! Would You Welcome the First American Entertainer Sambo!!

And Performing Today at Balls, Circuses, Theatres, Picnics, Churches, Schools, and Prisons

The Indomitable, Spirited, Laughing ... Jim Crow, Esquire!!

Impressions in Boldface

Prismatic Projections

The Camera Eye

The Radio Ear: The Odd-Couples Connecction

The Fool as an Emancipator.

Notes:

"Jacket design © 1986 by Richard Rossiter."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has stamp "Joseph Mitchell His Book The New Yorker ... New York City" on half-title.(pages

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0195040740 :

OCLC:

13498918