UID:
almahu_9949597131402882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 330 p.) :
,
ill.
ISBN:
9781469602431 (ebook) :
Content:
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video 'Dangerous'. This work explores the enduring tradition of 'whiting up', in which African American actors, comics, musicians, and even everyday people have studied and assumed white racial identities.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780807835081
Language:
English
URL:
North Carolina scholarship online
