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'This chapter considers a form of entertainment popular during the nineteenth century in America and Australia - blackface entertainment - to investigate some connections between the two nations. This chapter suggests that blackface entertainment was one of an array of technologies that encoded transnational views about nation, class and race. During the 1830s and 1840s, in both America and Australia, discourses of otherness energised and united a transnational community of white workers who challenged the social and cultural authority of the upper classes at the same time as asserting their authority over racial minorities.' (p. 151)
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151-166
Transnational Connectivities of Whiteness : American Blackface in Life in Sydney
Subjects:
- Life in Sydney; Or, The Ran Dan Club 1843 single work musical theatre
- From Minstrel Show to Vaudeville : Australian Popular Stage 1788-1914 1990 single work criticism
- Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage : 1834-1899 2006 anthology drama
- 1830-1849
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