Forty million Americans indulged in a national obsession in
1930: they eagerly tuned in Amos 'n' Andy, the nightly radio comedy
in which a pair of white actors portrayed the adventures of two
black men making a new life in the big city. Meanwhile, some angry
African Americans demanded that Amos 'n' Andy be banned, even as
others gathered in the barbershops and radio stores of Harlem to
chuckle over the adventures of Amos, Andy, and the Kingfish.
Melvin Patrick Ely unveils a fascinating tale of America's
shifting color line, in which two professional directors of
blackface minstrel shows manage to produce a series so rich and
complex that it wins admirers ranging from ultra-racists to
outspoken racial egalitarians. Eventually, the pair stir further
controversy when they bring their show to television.
In a preface written especially for this new edition of his
acclaimed classic, Ely shows how white and black responses to his
Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy since 1991 tell a revealing story of
their own about racial hopes and fears at the turn of the
twenty-first century.
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