Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category : African American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Minstrel Gags and End Men's Handbook
Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : African American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Beecher's Recitations and Readings
Author: Alvah C. BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Plays for Young People, with Songs and Choruses, Suitable for Private Theatricals
Author: James BarmbyPublisher:
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Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture
Author: William L. Van DeburgPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299096342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50.
The Romance of Reunion
Author: Nina SilberPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786448X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to sentimental reunion rhetoric. Northern culture created a notion of reconciliation that romanticized and feminized southern society. In tourist accounts, novels, minstrel shows, and popular magazines, northerners contributed to a mythic and nostalgic picture of the South that served to counter their anxieties regarding the breakdown of class and gender roles in Gilded Age America. Indeed, for many Yankees, the ultimate symbol of the reunion process, and one that served to reinforce Victorian values as well as northern hegemony, was the marriage of a northern man and a southern woman. Southern men also were represented as affirming traditional gender roles. As northern men wrestled with their nation's increasingly global and aggressive foreign policy, the military virtues extolled in Confederate legend became more admired than reviled. By the 1890s, concludes Silber, northern whites had accepted not only a newly resplendent image of Dixie but also a sentimentalized view of postwar reunion.
The Wages of Whiteness
Author: David R. RoedigerPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839768304
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette
Author: Arthur MartinePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Martine'S Hand-Book of Etiquette, And Guide to True Politeness by Arthur Martine, first published in 1866, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
My Friend from Leatherhead
Author: Edmund YatesDer Freischutz
Author: John Thomas HainesPublisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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