Performing race and erasure [electronic resource] : Cuba, Haiti, and US culture, 1898-1940 / Shannon Rose Riley.
Riley, Shannon Rose, author.
2016
E184.A1
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Title Performing race and erasure [electronic resource] : Cuba, Haiti, and US culture, 1898-1940 / Shannon Rose Riley.
Author Riley, Shannon Rose, author.
ISBN 9781137592118 (electronic book)
1137592117 (electronic book)
9781137592101
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59211-8
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-59211-8 doi
Call Number E184.A1
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
Summary In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US racial structures along increasingly biracial lines. Based on impressive research and with extensive analysis of various textual and performance forms including a largely unique set of skits, plays, songs, cultural performances and other popular amusements, Riley shows that Cuba and Haiti were particularly meaningful to the ways that people in the US re-imagined themselves as black or white and that racial positions were renegotiated through what she calls acts of palimpsest: marking and unmarking, racing and erasing difference. Riley's book demands a reassessment of the importance of the occupations of Cuba and Haiti to US culture, challenging conventional understandings of performance, empire, and race at the turn of the twentieth century.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource, title from PDF title page (viewed on August 3, 2016).
Series Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9781137592101
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Chapter 1. Cuba, Haiti, & the US
Chapter 2. Imperial Scripts and Vaudeville Skits
Chapter 3. Patriotic Performance Culture and Whiteness
Chapter 4. Re-Racing the Nation
Chapter 5. Military Occupation in Haiti
Chapter 6. Staging the Haitian Revolution
Chapter 7. Biracial Palimpsests
Chapter 8.Palimpsest-Postscript
Bibliography.

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