Darkest America
Subtitle: black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop
By: Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen
Contributors: Austen, Jake
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393070989
Subjects: Minstrel shows; Blackface entertainers; Hip-hop; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial pixies : how Dave Chappelle got bamboozled by the Black minstrel tradition; title: Darkest America : how nineteenth-century Black minstrelsy made blackface black of cannibals and kings : how New Orleans' Zulu Krewe survived one hundred years of blackface; title: Nobody : how Bert Williams dignified blackface; title: I'se regusted how Stepin Fetchit, Amos, Andy, and company brought black minstrelsy to the twentieth-century screen; title: Dyn-o-mite : How Cosby blew up the minstrel tradition, and J.J. put it back together; title: That's why darkies were born; title: How black popular singers kept minstrelsy's musical legacy alive; title: Eazy duz it : how black minstrelsy bum-rushed hip-hop; title: We just love to dramatize : how Zora Neale Hurston let her black minstrel roots show; title: New millennium minstrel show : how Spike Lee and Tyler Perry brought the black minstrelsy debate to the twenty-first century; title: Sources; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.