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Blackface and the Black Arts Movement
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2013 (T218)
- pp. 143-162
- Article
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The 1960s witnessed among African Americans a wholesale rejection of white power, including the repertoire and iconography of blackface performance. And yet, surprisingly, one finds among some of the most revolutionary Afrocentric artists, critics, and activists of the time a complex, nuanced, even contradictory attitude towards "blacking up."