Racial geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American theatre
By: Shannon Steen.
Series: Studies in international performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780230221932
Subjects: Racism and the arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States; Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans in the performing arts; Asians in the performing arts; Racism in literature; Race relations in literature; African Americans in literature; Asians in literature; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Drawing on original archival research, Racial Geometries examines popular forms of performance -- from musical theatre and minstrelsy to non-theatrical forms like Chinatown tourism -- to expose how American racial formation between the two World Wars was not determined only within national borders but traded on and influenced international dynamics"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  How Uncle Tom's Cabin Killed the King of Siam; title: Passing Between Nations : Racial Impersonation and Transnational Affiliation; title: Melancholy Bodies : Eugene O'Neill, Imperial Critique, and Irish Assimilation; title: American Progress : Tours, Tourism, and Internationalism; title: The Geometries of Swing : A Black Pacific and The Swing Mikados; title: Coda: The Black Face of US Imperialism.