Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment Binding:Hardcover In Girls That Never Die

In Girls That Never Die

Jesse Q Sutanto

They will fight a war for the very soul of the Medardas

or destroy her

a cough has settled deep in her lungs

Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment Binding:Hardcover In Girls That Never DieNever before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. With Darkology, Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes meticulously unravels the complex, subterranean, and all too often expunged history of "Darkology" the insidious study, commodification, and dehumanization of Black life, through which performers caricatured the enslaved and formerly enslaved for their supposed