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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race - Ndiaye, Noémie, and Heng, Geraldine, Professor (Editor), and Thompson, Ayanna, Professor (Editor)
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"Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism. In this book, No???emie Ndiaye explores the techniques of impersonation used by white performers to represent Afro-diasporic people in England, France, and Spain in the ...

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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race 2024, University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN-13: 9781512826074

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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race 2022, University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN-13: 9781512822632

Hardcover