Sambo : the rise & demise of an American jester / Joseph Boskin.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages [8] pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780195363531
- 0195363531
- 1280523603
- 9781280523601
- 9780195056587
- 0195056582
- 9786610523603
- 6610523606
- Sambo : the rise and demise of an American jester
- Popular culture -- United States
- Sambo (Fictitious character)
- African American entertainers -- Biography
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Fools and jesters -- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis
- Artistes du spectacle noirs américains -- Biographies
- Noirs américains dans les arts du spectacle
- Fous et bouffons -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales
- Stéréotypes -- États-Unis
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- African American entertainers
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Fools and jesters
- Popular culture
- Race relations
- Sambo (Fictitious character)
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- United States
- Darstellender Künstler
- Geschichte
- Humor
- Schwarze Motiv
- Schwarze
- Noirs américains -- Opinion publique -- Histoire
- Artistes noirs américains
- USA
- 306.4/84/08996073 22
- E169.1 .B762 1988
- HR 1855
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
An epitaph read backward in time -- As his name is, so is he -- Ladies and gentlemen: your attention please! Would you welcome the first American entertainer, Sambo!! -- And performing today at balls, circuses, theatres, picnics, churches, schools, and prisons- the indomitable, spirited, laughing- Jim Crow, esquire! -- Impressions in boldface -- Prismatic projections -- The camera eye -- The radio ear: the odd-couples connection -- The fool as an emancipator.
Traces the history of comic stereotype of the Black performer and explains how it was finally eradicated.
English.
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