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Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2015) 59 (4 (228)): 83–100.
Published: 01 December 2015
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View articletitled, Williams, Walker, and Shine: Blackbody Blackface, or the Importance of Being Surface
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At the turn of the last century, Bert Williams and George Walker performed as a minstrel duo in which only Williams wore burnt cork. By mixing the surfaces of blacking and their own black skin, Williams and Walker offered an aesthetic critique of the subject/object status of the black body—animating the inanimate substance of burnt cork while objectifying animate black skin. Examples from portrait photography and the visual art of Whitfield Lovell and Kara Walker support arguments about the agency of surface.
Journal Articles
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2015) 59 (3 (227)): 174–176.
Published: 01 September 2015
View articletitled, The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography. By Jennifer C. Nash. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014; 240 pp.; illustrations. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper
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for article titled, The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography. By Jennifer C. Nash. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014; 240 pp.; illustrations. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper