Censoring racial ridicule
Subtitle: Irish, Jewish, and African American struggles over race and representation, 1890-1930
By: M. Alison Kibler
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781469618364
Subjects: Theater and society; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Racism in popular culture; Racism and the arts; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The minstrel show and the melee: Irish, Jewish, and African Americans in popular culture and politics; title: Practical censorship: Irish American theater riots; title: Immoral . . . in the broad sense: censoring racial ridicule in legitimate theater; title: Shylock and Sambo censored: Jewish and African American campaigns for race-based motion picture censorship; title: Are the Hebrews to have a censor?: Jewish censors in Chicago; title: Without fear or favor: free-speech advocates confront race-based; title: Censorship; title: Conclusion.