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Barcode30053003833822
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No792.7028 BARN
Title Darkology : blackface and the American way of entertainment / Rhae Lynn Barnes.
Author Barnes, Rhae Lynn, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 700-799
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003833822792.7028 BARN3/23/2026 Available

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Personal Name Barnes, Rhae Lynn, author.
Title Statement Darkology : blackface and the American way of entertainment / Rhae Lynn Barnes.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026.
Physical Description 501 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content Type still image rdacontent
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Formatted Contents Note Author's note -- Terminology -- Introduction -- Part one. The Jolly Corks -- Part two. Booked -- Part three. Uncle Sam and the business of Blackface -- Part four. Dixie in the desert -- Part five. Polio Minstrels -- Part six. "A thing apart" -- Part seven. Sugarcoating slavery -- Part eight. A Ford, not a Lincoln -- When the American Dream wore Blackface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Summary, Etc. "A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries" -- Amazon.com
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Blackface entertainers United States History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Racism in popular culture United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Blackface United States History.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States Race relations.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Illustrated works. lcgft

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