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9%OFFLouis Chude-Sokei - The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora - 9780822336433 - V9780822336433
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The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

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Description for The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora Paperback. Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. Louis Chude-Sokei contends that Williams’s blackface was not a display of internalized racism nor a submission to the expectations of the moment. It was an appropriation and exploration of the contradictory and potentially ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822336433
SKU
V9780822336433
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About Louis Chude-Sokei
Louis Chude-Sokei is Professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University.

Reviews for The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
“Louis Chude-Sokei’s innovative study not only brings overdue attention to Bert Williams. It deepens our understanding of black modernity and redirects the study of minstrelsy as well. A rich, wide-ranging book, it is filled with resonant insights and brilliant collocations.”—Nathaniel Mackey, author of Paracritical Hinge “With theoretical verve and archival aplomb, Louis Chude-Sokei explores an open secret that we too ... Read more

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