...Barry Shank Duke University Press 2003 Bliss, or Blackface Sentiment Barry Shank When Senator Sunraider delivers the final speech of his career in Ralph Ellison’s novel Juneteenth, he seems to articulate one of Ellison’s most...

... behind masks. In this essay, I want to use the early part of Bob Dylan’s career to explore the artificial authenticity that lies at the core of American popular music—the legacy of blackface minstrelsy. By historicizing his work in the context of the Civil Rights movement and the New Left, I...

... responsible for social segregation were represented as taking place within the nonsymbolizable terrain between socially symbolic motives and these unspeakable psychosocial needs. In ‘‘Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity Elli- son described blackface minstrelsy...

.... Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. Project on Vegas, The. Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Sammond, Nicholas. Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015...

... American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Lhamon, W. T. Jr. Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge...

..., proslavery commentators opted for a rhetoric abid- ing to the claims of playfulness and laziness that accompanied the new blackface minstrelsy. As a result, in the course of everyday commentary, observers seemed at times unsure how to represent this most peculiar new form, Negro music. Sometimes...

... in blackface, as it were, the poet describes an ironic enfranchisement: And gladly would I lay thee down To sleep beneath the sod, And give thy gentle spirit back...

...- son: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), 9–41. . West, The American Evasion of Philosophy, 31. West alluded to Ralph (Waldo) Ellison’s observation that blackface minstrelsy and Emersonian self-reliance were historically con- temporaneous and socially interactive cultural agencies. According...

... the Krewes of Proteus and Endymion, the Bards of Bohemia, and the Zulu So- cial Aid and Pleasure Club, whose principally African American members burlesque racial stereotypes by parading in blackface minstrelsy makeup, grass...

... that she was becoming blackface. She was becoming a minstrel in order to be a mimetic double of Barack Obama. The sense that Rogin had that blackface is a way for whites to prove their mobility, grounded in the immobility of African Americans, is what Obama shifted in his...

... of a Caribbean like speech to get away with murder.”72 It sounds like Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars. This is a strange and bitter book. And it is hard to understand this strange bitterness, this blackface. Is it a mocking attack on the turn against stan- dard English that so defines the ’90s...

... found not just in older academic-critical­ works like Houston Baker’s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-­American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) and Eric Lott’s Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (London: Oxford University...

... Consciousness (Cambridge: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 1993); and W. T. Lhamon Jr., Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). 280 boundary 2 / Spring 2002 Liberty’’ 14 upon it, then think how much more some people in an Islam in crisis could...

.... 40. There was also a public controversy in early 2012 involving German actors wearing black makeup for a comedy production at a Berlin theater. While some critics maintained that this represented the practice of blackface, the well- known director clearly stated that the lack of a black actor in his...