Whiting Up
Title | Whiting Up PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin McAllister |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807869066 |
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." In this sweeping work, Marvin McAllister 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. Not to be confused with racial "passing" or derogatory notions of "acting white," whiting up is a deliberate performance strategy designed to challenge America's racial and political hierarchies by transferring supposed markers of whiteness to black bodies--creating unexpected intercultural alliances even as it sharply critiques racial stereotypes. Along with conventional theater, McAllister considers a variety of other live performance modes, including weekly promenading rituals, antebellum cakewalks, solo performance, and standup comedy. For over three centuries, whiting up as allowed African American artists to appropriate white cultural production, fashion new black identities through these "white" forms, and advance our collective ability to locate ourselves in others.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Title | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1158 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Northeast Multispecies Fishery, Fisheries Management Plan (FMP)
Title | Northeast Multispecies Fishery, Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | |
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Reports from Commissioners
Title | Reports from Commissioners PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 1870 |
Genre | |
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Report of the Danish Biological Station
Title | Report of the Danish Biological Station PDF eBook |
Author | Copenhagen (Denmark). Dansk Biologisk Station |
Publisher | |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Biology |
ISBN |
Report of the Danish Biological Station to the Ministry of Shipping and Fishing
Title | Report of the Danish Biological Station to the Ministry of Shipping and Fishing PDF eBook |
Author | Dansk Biologisk Station |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1094 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Biology |
ISBN |
Sessional Papers
Title | Sessional Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1006 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |