Darkening mirrors
Subtitle: imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance
By: Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780822348986; 9780822349235
Subjects: African American arts; African Americans in motion pictures; Race identity; African American theater; African Americans in popular culture; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Harlem rides the range" : expansion, modernity, and Negro success; title: Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives : exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution; title: Prisms of imperial gaze : swinging the Negro Mikado; title: Lens/body : anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora; title: Ethnographic refraction : exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in The devil's daughter; title: No storm in the weather : domestic bliss and African American performance.