"The Last "Darky"" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. Louis Chude-Sokei contends that Williams's blackface was not a display of internalized racism nor a submission to the expectations...
"The Last "Darky"" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a glob...
"The Last "Darky"" establishes the late 19th- and early 20th-century comedian Bert Williams, an Afro-Caribbean who often performed in blackface, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance.
"The Last "Darky"" establishes the late 19th- and early 20th-century comedian Bert Williams, an Afro-Caribbean who often performed in blackface, as ce...
The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks...
The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the la...