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Exporting Jim Crow - Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (Paperback)
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Exporting Jim Crow - Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (Paperback)
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Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel
troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century,
popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from
Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally
landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first
popular culture export of the United States, minstrel shows
frequently portrayed black characters as noncitizens who were unfit
for democratic participation and contributed to the construction of
a global color line.Chinua Thelwell brings blackface minstrelsy and
performance culture into the discussion of apartheid's
nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing a broad archive
of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs
and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts. Exporting Jim
Crow highlights blackface minstrelsy's cultural and social impact
as it became a dominant form of entertainment, moving from its
initial appearances on music hall stages to its troubling
twentieth-century resurgence on movie screens and at public events.
This carefully researched and highly original study demonstrates
that the performance of race in South Africa was inherently
political, contributing to racism and shoring up white racial
identity.
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