Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop

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Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to consider, and overturning cherished ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Benito Cereno to The Jazz Singer, W. T. Lhamon Jr. sets out a startlingly original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating.


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Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to consider, and overturning cherished ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Benito Cereno to The Jazz Singer, W. T. Lhamon Jr. sets out a startlingly original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating.


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