Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture) by Eric Lott

Author:Eric Lott
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780195320558
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 10 Jim and Huck, by E. W. Kemble

Courtesy of the Alderman Library, University of Virginia

It was, of course, the internal “racial” ghosts that minstrel-show “vulgarity” was meant to exorcise. Exorcism is a drastic resort, and minstrelsy’s growing popularity in these years suggests it was an only partly successful one. No doubt its pleasures were peculiarly conducive to a political climate that demanded racial complacency as well as class-coded public arts. Yet we shall see that as time went on, minstrel performers found themselves backed steadily into a corner. That predicament is now known as the slavery crisis, and it was about to erupt.

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