{"product_id":"exporting-jim-crow-chinua-thelwell-9781625345172","title":"Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond","description":"Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first popular culture export of the United States, minstrel shows frequently portrayed black characters as noncitizens who were unfit for democratic participation and contributed to the construction of a global color line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChinua Thelwell brings blackface minstrelsy and performance culture into the discussion of apartheid's nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing a broad archive of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts. \u003ci\u003eExporting Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e highlights blackface minstrelsy's cultural and social impact as it became a dominant form of entertainment, moving from its initial appearances on music hall stages to its troubling twentieth-century resurgence on movie screens and at public events. This carefully researched and highly original study demonstrates that the performance of race in South Africa was inherently political, contributing to racism and shoring up white racial identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chinua Thelwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625345178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625345172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Chinua Thelwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987452166399,"sku":"9781625345172","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_968a0004-4fd2-4a47-bc7e-b2f702dd26f8.jpg?v=1683289071","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exporting-jim-crow-chinua-thelwell-9781625345172","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}