Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance by Marvin McAllister

Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance

Marvin McAllister

352 pages paperback

1 edition

nonfiction art history
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In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface...

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