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Title: Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author: Taylor, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Description: Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...

Title: Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author: Taylor, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...