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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Tautology of Blackface and the Objectification of Racism: A “How-To” Guide

Byrne, Kevin 06 July 2016 (has links)
This essay examines U.S. blackface performance in the twentieth century through the lens of Adorno's mass culture critiques, specifically of jazz music. Despite being rooted in the divisive logic of antiquated live performance traditions, blackface as a racist glyph flourishes in the technologically mediated social environment of the twentieth century. By replacing Adorno's critique of jazz with a direct investigation of blackface, the essay argues for a more materialist approach to minstrelsy studies that acknowledges both circulation and accumulation as oppressive hegemonic forces.
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Whites in blackface, blacks in whiteface : racial fluidities and national identities /

Richards, Jason. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 2005. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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White bodies, black voices : the linguistic construction of racialized authenticity in US film

Lopez, Qiuana La'teese 12 July 2012 (has links)
By examining the range of stances that white characters in Hollywood films are represented as taking in relation to blackness, this dissertation considers the question of how language becomes ideologically linked to categories of race through linguistic representations. Through an analysis of 59 films (1979-2008) from multiple genres, this study focuses on the linguistic practices of the characters that contribute to larger semiotic practices performed by discernible social types. The first linguistic practice, crossing, plays on the stereotype of the inauthentic, white male, who tries to gain coolness through linguistic representations of African Americans. The second practice, passing, conjures images of blackface because in addition to using linguistic representations of African Americans, the passing characters darken their skin. By demonstrating complex links between language and social meanings such as ideologies about authenticity, identity and racial and gendered stereotypes, these films use linguistic features along with other visual and physical semiotic displays to both construct and comment on black and white authenticity. Specifically, crossing was found to comment on disseminated images of the young, white male as lacking a particular type of masculinity and sexuality and overcompensating for them by imitating widely circulating images of the hypermasculine, hypersexual and hyperphysical black male. In addition, it commented on the tendency to read this linguistic practice as inauthentic. Therefore, the social meaning of the white linguistic representations of African Americans used when crossing was found to be related to authenticity or who had the right to use ethnically-marked linguistic features. On the other hand, passing was argued to communicate the ideologies that some whites may have of African Americans, particularly African American men. The linguistic resources utilized in these performances are not used to form identity, but for humor and to distance the character from being read as traditional minstrelsy. By highlighting some of the linguistic strategies that speakers in Hollywood use to (re)produce not only indexical links between linguistic forms and racialized stereotypes but also ideologies about racial authenticity, this dissertation provides an empirical study of some of the semiotic practices that involve the re-indexicalization of minority vernacular resources by members of the majority. / text
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The Fantasy of Whiteness: Blackness and Aboriginality in American and Australian Culture

Miller, Benjamin Ian, English, Media, & Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW January 2009 (has links)
This dissertation argues that a fantasy of white authority was articulated and disseminated through the representations of blackness and Aboriginality in nineteenth-century American and Australian theatre, and that this fantasy influenced the representation of Aboriginality in twentieth-century Australian culture. The fantasy of whiteness refers to the habitually enacted and environmentally entrenched assumption that white people can and should superintend the cultural representation of Otherness. This argument is presented in three parts. Part One examines the complex ways in which white anxieties and concerns were expressed through discourses of blackness in nineteenth-century American blackface entertainment. Part Two examines the various transnational discursive connections enabled by American and Australian blackface entertainments in Australia during the nineteenth century. Part Three examines the legacy of nineteenth-century blackface entertainment in twentieth-century Australian culture. Overall, this dissertation investigates some of the fragmentary histories and stories about Otherness that coalesce within Australian culture. This examination suggests that representations of Aboriginality in Australian culture are influenced and manipulated by whiteness in ways that seek to entrench and protect white cultural authority. Even today, a phantasmal whiteness is often present within cultural representations of Aboriginality.
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The Fantasy of Whiteness: Blackness and Aboriginality in American and Australian Culture

Miller, Benjamin Ian, English, Media, & Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW January 2009 (has links)
This dissertation argues that a fantasy of white authority was articulated and disseminated through the representations of blackness and Aboriginality in nineteenth-century American and Australian theatre, and that this fantasy influenced the representation of Aboriginality in twentieth-century Australian culture. The fantasy of whiteness refers to the habitually enacted and environmentally entrenched assumption that white people can and should superintend the cultural representation of Otherness. This argument is presented in three parts. Part One examines the complex ways in which white anxieties and concerns were expressed through discourses of blackness in nineteenth-century American blackface entertainment. Part Two examines the various transnational discursive connections enabled by American and Australian blackface entertainments in Australia during the nineteenth century. Part Three examines the legacy of nineteenth-century blackface entertainment in twentieth-century Australian culture. Overall, this dissertation investigates some of the fragmentary histories and stories about Otherness that coalesce within Australian culture. This examination suggests that representations of Aboriginality in Australian culture are influenced and manipulated by whiteness in ways that seek to entrench and protect white cultural authority. Even today, a phantasmal whiteness is often present within cultural representations of Aboriginality.
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Subverting blackface and the epistemology of American identity in John Berryman's 77 Dream songs

Rosby, Amy. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Cleveland State University, 2008. / Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 7, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-52). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center. Also available in print.
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Lilla Hjärtats två ansikten : En diskursanalys av debatten om en barnboksfigur / The two faces of "Lilla HJärtat" : A discourse analysis of the debate on a children's book character

Forssell, Amanda January 2015 (has links)
In the autumn of 2012 the fictional character “Lilla Hjärtat” created by the Swedish author and illustrator Stina Wirsén, became a much-discussed topic in Swedish media. This following the premiere of the children’s film “Liten Skär och alla små brokiga”. Stina Wirsén is an established and well-acclaimed name in children’s literature. “Lilla Hjärtat”, a jet-black doll, had become one of many popular characters in her books. However, two years later at the time of the film release, social media picked up on the idea that “Lilla Hjärtat” resembled a racist stereotype, a so-called picaninny or a blackface. According to Wirsén, her intention was to deflate an outdated stereotype and refill it with a new and positive meaning. The purpose was to offer children of all skin colours and all backgrounds an empowering role model to identify with. Those who were opposed argued that using a racist stereotype in a children’s book or film was inappropriate and harmful. On the other hand, those in favour did not view the character as racist and believed it would contribute to openness and diversity. The purpose of the thesis is to make an analysis of the debate and the arguments that were presented. As a result I could find two discourses, one that argued against “Lilla Hjärtat”, and one that argued that “Lilla Hjärtat” was a positive character. In the discourse against Lilla Hjärtat, debaters maintained that small children were unable to distinguish between the different meanings of stereotypical pictures, and also that a privileged white person does not have the interpretative prerogative to change a stereotypical image that has been discriminating black people for generations. In the other discourse, debaters meant that the character could be an important and strong role model for young dark-skinned children. They also discussed that the real problem was that there were so few characters of children of other nationalities in children’s literature.
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SUBVERTING BLACKFACE AND THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF AMERICAN IDENTITY IN JOHN BERRYMAN'S 77 DREAM SONGS

Rosby, Amy 23 July 2008 (has links)
No description available.
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Is It All Just For Laughs? An Examination of Gender Minstrelsy and its Manipulation of the Image of Black Womanhood

Sessions, Brittany 11 August 2015 (has links)
Controlling images and negative stereotypes have had damaging effects on black men and women. The entertainment industry continues to play a vital role in perpetuating these historically damaging images to people all over the world. Early representations of black men and women within entertainment were performed by white men under the guise of blackface. These representations were offensive and inaccurate portrayals of black life. Early blackface minstrel performances of black women were performed by white men in blackface who were also cross-dressing. Their performances presented black women in stereotypical roles which have become a norm. Recently, there has been a phenomenon of black men cross-dressing as black women portraying negative stereotypes. These depictions done under the guise of comedy further perpetuate controlling images of black women to the world. This research examines how current and former displays of gender minstrelsy manipulate the image of Black womanhood.
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White Skin, Black Masks: Jewish Minstrelsy and Performing Whiteness

Scal, Joshua 01 January 2019 (has links)
This work traces the relationship of Jews to African-Americans in the process of Jews attaining whiteness in the 20th century. Specific attention is paid to blackface performance in The Jazz Singer and the process of identification with suffering. Theoretically this work brings together psychoanalytic theories of projection, repression and masochism with afro-pessimist notions of the libidinal economy of white supremacy. Ultimately, I argue that in its enjoyment and its masochism, The Jazz Singer empathizes with blackness both as a way to assimilate into white America and express doubt at this very act.

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