Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop by W.T. Lhamon Jr.

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop

W.T. Lhamon Jr.

288 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet some...

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