| Description |
ix, 252 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 225-243. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
An Epitaph Read Backward in Time -- As His Name Is, So Is He -- Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Attention, Please! Would You Welcome The First American Entertainer Sambo!! -- And Performing Today at Balls, Circuses, Theatres Picnics, Churches, Schools, and Prisons--The Indomitable, Spirited, Laughing... Jim Crow, Esquire!! -- Impressions in Boldface -- Prismatic Projections -- The Camera Eye -- The Radio Ear: The Odd-Couples Connection -- The Fool as an Emancipator. |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States.
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Sambo (Fictitious character)
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African American entertainers -- Biography.
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African Americans in the performing arts.
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Fools and jesters -- United States.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States.
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| Indexed Term |
United States Entertainment industries Role of American black persons |
| Added Title |
Sambo : the rise and demise of an American jester.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Boskin, Joseph. Sambo. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 (OCoLC)564861234 |
| ISBN |
0195040740 alkaline paper |
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9780195040746 alkaline paper |
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