Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott

Race and American Culture

Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

Eric Lott

328 pages 1993

3 editions

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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflict...

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