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The Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
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Louis Chude-Sokei
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Louis Chude-Sokei is Professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University.
Reviews
“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 often have preferred to ignore: the central role of black minstrelsy in the origins of the Harlem Renaissance. Starting with the simple fact of Bert Williams’s Caribbean origins, he finds the multiple layers of masquerade in any performance of ‘race.’ A timely, often profound portrait of the dynamics of intraracial difference in diaspora.”—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora
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January 16, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9780822387060
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