imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance /
Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2011
xx, 326 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Harlem rides the range" : expansion, modernity, and Negro success -- Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives : exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution -- Prisms of imperial gaze : swinging the Negro Mikado -- Lens/body : anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora -- Ethnographic refraction : exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in The devil's daughter -- No storm in the weather : domestic bliss and African American performance
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African American arts-- 20th century
African American theater-- History-- 20th century
African Americans in motion pictures-- History-- 20th century
African Americans in popular culture-- History-- 20th century
African Americans-- Race identity-- History-- 20th century