Blackface, White Noise
Book • 1996
Michael Rogin's Blackface White Noise analyzes the political and cultural implications of blackface minstrelsy in American history, focusing on how performance shaped racial identities and power structures.
Rogin explores how various groups, including Jewish immigrants, engaged with blackface as performers and consumers, and how these performances mediated questions of whiteness and belonging.
The book situates blackface within broader themes of race, nationalism, and popular culture, using critical theory and historical evidence.
Rogin argues that minstrelsy functioned as a form of public discourse that both entertained and reproduced social hierarchies.
The work is influential in studies of race, performance, and American studies.
Rogin explores how various groups, including Jewish immigrants, engaged with blackface as performers and consumers, and how these performances mediated questions of whiteness and belonging.
The book situates blackface within broader themes of race, nationalism, and popular culture, using critical theory and historical evidence.
Rogin argues that minstrelsy functioned as a form of public discourse that both entertained and reproduced social hierarchies.
The work is influential in studies of race, performance, and American studies.
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