Racechanges : White Skin, Black Face in American Culture

This text examines racial impersonations - ie, blackface - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography and journalism.

Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others.

Gubar draws from an extensive range of illustrative work, with examples from high and low culture, from turn-of-the century to present day.This book is intended for scholars and students in popular culture, African-American studies and 20th-century American studies.