Search Results for Hemispheric Americas

... repeating nationalist fictions racial conjuring blackface performance Hemispheric Americas ...

... “Introduction: Scenes of Racial Enjoyment in the Hemispheric Fold” argues for thinking with and across national silos to attend to the multiple and varying instantiations of blackface performance in the Americas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reimaging the Americas...

... by and for Miami’s Cuban diaspora, Yeyo is a negrito who negotiates the rise of the first black president of the United States, discourses of postracialism, and hemispheric formations of antiblackness and whiteness in the city. The chapter argues that Yeyo mediates geopolitical changes in the Americas and forges...

... “Conclusion: Hemispheric Blackface and Its Afterlives” summarizes the book’s central claim that blackface is a recourse that people wield to negotiate the turn away from colorblindness to recognition of race in the Americas. It also considers new directions for future study of blackface...

... Tundique danza de caporales zambo sambo blackface in Peru, Bolivia hemispheric double ...

... predecessor, the controversial Bolivian indigenous blackface dance known as the Tundique, it illuminates how the revolving fictions and fantasies about blackness circulating in the hemispheric fold are levied to construct a slave past and sustain a racial script. Tundique danza de caporales zambo...