Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America
- ISBN-10
- 0674019407
- ISBN-13
- 9780674019409
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Karen Sotiropoulos
Description
Drawing extensively on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Karen Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in a politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. Despite the racial violence, disenfranchisement, and the segregation of virtually all public space, they used America's new businesses of popular entertainment as vehicles for their own creativity and as spheres for political engagement.
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