Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / by Lott, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.…”
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The abolitionist Civil War : immediatists and the struggle to transform the Union / by Cirillo, Frank J.

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