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Author_Danielle Roper
blackface in Bolivia
blackface in Jamaica
blackface in Peru
blackface performance
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creole nationalism
Cuban diaspora
danza de caporales
Delcita Coldwater
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Hemispheric Americas
hemispheric double
La negrita
Liliana Angulo
multiculturalism
negrito
Postracialism
race in Latin America
racial conjuring
racial impersonation
sambo
Sambos Illimani
spatial drag
Tundique
Yeyo Vargas
zambo
Product details
- ISBN 9781478031888
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Challenging both the dominance of the US minstrel tradition and the focus on the nation in blackface studies, Roper maps a hemispheric network of racial impersonation in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, and Miami. She analyzes blackface performance in the aftermath of the turn to multiculturalism in Latin America, the emergence of modern blackness in Jamaica, and the rise of Barack Obama in the United States, showing how blackface remains embedded in cultural entertainment. Contending that the Americas are linked by repeating nationalist fictions of postracialism, colorblindness, and myths of racial democracy, Roper assesses how acts of impersonation mediate the ongoing power of these narratives and enable people to comprehend advancements and reversals in racial equality. Rather than simply framing blackface as liberatory or oppressive, Roper traces its emergence from a shared history of slavery and the varied politics of racial enjoyment throughout the hemisphere.
Danielle Roper is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.
