{"product_id":"exporting-jim-crow-blackface-minstrelsy-in-south-africa-and-beyond-paperback-softback-9781625345172","title":"Exporting Jim Crow; Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625345172","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExporting Jim Crow\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChinua Thelwell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625345172\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Historical in nature and based on archival research and an extensive reading of historiography about blackface minstrelsy and racial and labor relations in South Africa, Exporting Jim Crow charts the importance of minstrelsy in forging a distinctive white settler identity in South Africa.”- Kevin K. Gaines, author of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Thelwell’s scholarship is impressive. This is essential reading for those interested in the transnational reach of blackface minstrelsy.”- Sandra Jean Graham, author of \u003ci\u003eSpirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFollowing the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first popular culture export of the United States, minstrel shows frequently portrayed black characters as noncitizens who were unfit for democratic participation and contributed to the construction of a global color line.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChinua Thelwell brings blackface minstrelsy and performance culture into the discussion of apartheid's nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing a broad archive of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts. \u003cem\u003eExporting Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e highlights blackface minstrelsy's cultural and social impact as it became a dominant form of entertainment, moving from its initial appearances on music hall stages to its troubling twentieth-century resurgence on movie screens and at public events. This carefully researched and highly original study demonstrates that the performance of race in South Africa was inherently political, contributing to racism and shoring up white racial identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrefaceIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Foundations: Blackface Minstrelsy in the United States and across the British Empire, 1830-1862\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2.An Empire of Burnt Cork: Blackface Minstrelsy in Pre-Industrial South Africa, 1862-1872\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Diamonds, Dandies, and Dispossession: Minstrel Shows During the South African Mineral Revolution, 1872-1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Toward a \"\"Modernizing\"\" Hybridity: McAdoo'\u003cbr\u003es Jubilee Singers, McAdoo'\u003cbr\u003es Minstrels, and Racial Uplift Politics, 1890-1898\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Brown-on-Black Masquerade: Cape Town'\u003cbr\u003es Coon Carnival\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. ATransatlantic Story of Burnt Cork Nationalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlobal Blackface: Toward Transnational Minstrelsy StudiesSources Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685569589528,"sku":"9781625345172","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/exporting-jim-crow-blackface-minstrelsy-in-south-africa-and-beyond-paperback-softback-9781625345172","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}