Scripts of Blackness Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
2022 ©2022
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| Series: | RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Performative Blackness in Early Modern Europe Chapter 1 A Brief History of Baroque Black-Up: Cosmetic Blackness and Religion Chapter 2 A Brief Herstory of Baroque Black-Up: Cosmetic Blackness, Gender, and Sexuality Chapter 3 Blackspeak Acoustic Blackness and the Accents of Race Chapter 4 Black Moves: Race, Dance, and Power Post/Script Ecologies of Racial Performance Appendix.