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Blackface Behind Barbed Wire: Gender and Racial Triangulation in the Japanese American Internment Camps
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2013 (T218)
- pp. 123-142
- Article
- Additional Information
In a dark footnote to a dark chapter in US history, Japanese Americans interned by their own government during World War II performed in blackface behind barbed wire. Exploring blackface performance in the camps raises questions regarding the potential resistance of racial impersonation and blackface's potential for triangulating race.