Honorable Mention, American Theatre and Drama Society's John W. Frick Award, 2015
Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theater, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating enactments of whiteness—from the use of white makeup and suggestive masks, to literary motifs and cultural narratives regarding “white” characte...
You easily download any file type for your device.Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) | Faedra Chatard Carpenter. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.