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Looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. Lee shows how blackface types were associated with working-class masculinity and the development of a nativist white racial identity for European immigrants, while the oriental marked what was culturally coded as foreign and feminized.

Oriental Black and White The Formation of Racial

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    Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
    Publication Date: 20/09/2022
    ISBN13: 9781469669625, 978-1469669625
    ISBN10: 1469669625
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    Book Synopsis
    Looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. Lee shows how blackface types were associated with working-class masculinity and the development of a nativist white racial identity for European immigrants, while the oriental marked what was culturally coded as foreign and feminized.

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