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1026040
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b780410
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Nowatzki, Robert,1965-
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Representing African Americans in transatlantic abolitionism and blackface minstrelsy /\ Robert Nowatzki.
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0807136409
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: 0807137456
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: 9780807136409
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: 9780807137451
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9780807136409
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Strange bedfellows : blackface minstrelsy and abolitionism in America -- Abolitionism, nationalism, blackface minstrelsy, and racial attitudes in Victorian Britain -- Race, abolitionism, and blackface imagery in Victorian literature -- "Our only truly national poets" : blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, cultural nationalism, and the American Renaissance -- Blackface tropes in nineteenth-century American literature.
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In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans, as well as their appropriations of each otherÆs rhetoric, imagery, sentiment, and characterization. Because the antislavery movement had stronger support in Britain and an association with the middle classes, Nowatzki argues, its conflicts with blackface ente.
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African Americans in popular culture-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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African Americans in popular culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Minstrel shows-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Minstrel shows-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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African Americans in popular culture
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Antislavery movements
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.
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Great Britain
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United States
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305.896/073
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E449.N92 2010eb
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