It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the...
Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class aloud.
Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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