Hemispheric Blackface

Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Danielle Roper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3188-8 (ISBN)

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In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Challenging both the dominance of the US minstrel tradition and the focus on the nation in blackface studies, Roper maps a hemispheric network of racial impersonation in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, and Miami. She analyzes blackface performance in the aftermath of the turn to multiculturalism in Latin America, the emergence of modern blackness in Jamaica, and the rise of Barack Obama in the United States, showing how blackface remains embedded in cultural entertainment. Contending that the Americas are linked by repeating nationalist fictions of postracialism, colorblindness, and myths of racial democracy, Roper assesses how acts of impersonation mediate the ongoing power of these narratives and enable people to comprehend advancements and reversals in racial equality. Rather than simply framing blackface as liberatory or oppressive, Roper traces its emergence from a shared history of slavery and the varied politics of racial enjoyment throughout the hemisphere.

Danielle Roper is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Scenes of Racial Enjoyment in the Hemispheric Fold 1
1. Blackface and Racial Scripts at the Andean Fiesta: Staging the Slave Past in the Andes 26
2. Doing Antiblackness in the Hemispheric Fold: Blackface Performance in Miami in the Age of Obama 59
3. Flipping the Racial Script: Blackface Performance as Resistance in Colombia 87
4. The Postcolonial Below: Roots Theater and Black Enjoyment in Jamaica 136
Conclusion. Hemispheric Blackface and Its Afterlives 172
Notes 181
Bibliography 213
Index 233

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Dissident Acts
Zusatzinfo	28 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3188-3 / 1478031883
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3188-8 / 9781478031888
Zustand	Neuware