Minstrel Gags and End Men's Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minstrel Gags and End Men's Handbook write by . This book was released on 1969. Minstrel Gags and End Men's Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beecher's Recitations and Readings
Beecher's Recitations and Readings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beecher's Recitations and Readings write by Alvah C. Beecher. This book was released on 1874. Beecher's Recitations and Readings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Plays for Young People, with Songs and Choruses, Suitable for Private Theatricals
Plays for Young People, with Songs and Choruses, Suitable for Private Theatricals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plays for Young People, with Songs and Choruses, Suitable for Private Theatricals write by James Barmby. This book was released on 1879. Plays for Young People, with Songs and Choruses, Suitable for Private Theatricals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture
Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture write by William L. Van Deburg. This book was released on 1984. Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50.
The Romance of Reunion
The Romance of Reunion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romance of Reunion write by Nina Silber. This book was released on 2000-11-09. The Romance of Reunion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to sentimental reunion rhetoric. Northern culture created a notion of reconciliation that romanticized and feminized southern society. In tourist accounts, novels, minstrel shows, and popular magazines, northerners contributed to a mythic and nostalgic picture of the South that served to counter their anxieties regarding the breakdown of class and gender roles in Gilded Age America. Indeed, for many Yankees, the ultimate symbol of the reunion process, and one that served to reinforce Victorian values as well as northern hegemony, was the marriage of a northern man and a southern woman. Southern men also were represented as affirming traditional gender roles. As northern men wrestled with their nation's increasingly global and aggressive foreign policy, the military virtues extolled in Confederate legend became more admired than reviled. By the 1890s, concludes Silber, northern whites had accepted not only a newly resplendent image of Dixie but also a sentimentalized view of postwar reunion.
