{"product_id":"darkology-rhae-lynn-barnes-9798228926653","title":"Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. \u003ci\u003eDarkology\u003c\/i\u003e, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unravels this complex, subterranean, and all-too-often expunged history. By 1830, blackface, which caricatured ex-slaves for their supposed subservience and happy demeanor, had become a venomous cultural export. Blackface theater soon segued into everyday amateur shows, with minstrelsy proliferating in Elks Clubs, churches, universities, and schools during Jim Crow, whose name derives from minstrelsy's founding character. Beloved by presidents including FDR and Gerald Ford, blackface saturated twentieth-century America, permeating US military bases abroad and World War II Japanese American internment camps as an \"Americanization\" tool. Despite a 1950s backlash led by Black mothers protesting public school performances, 1960s college students from California to Vermont aggressively challenged legal bans. With its gripping writing and penetrating archival research, \u003ci\u003eDarkology\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark work that peers beneath the historical boulders that deliberately obscure our racial past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rhae Lynn Barnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228926653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HighBridge Audio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e MP3 CD","brand":"Rhae Lynn Barnes","offers":[{"title":"MP3 CD","offer_id":48443232616703,"sku":"9798228926653","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6fa574b9-182e-4457-ad5c-032e0cacd003.jpg?v=1777202731","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/darkology-rhae-lynn-barnes-9798228926653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}