Beschreibung:
Stephanie Leigh Batiste is a performance artist and Associate Professor of English and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
List of Figures ixPrologue xiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction 11. "Harlem Rides the Range": Expansion, Modernity, and Negro Success 272. Epaulets and Leaf Skirts, Warriors, and Subversives: Exoticism in the Performance of the Haitian Revolution 703. Prisms of Imperial Gaze: Swinging the Negro Mikado 1154. Lens/Body: Anthropology's Methodologies and Spaces of Reflection in Dunham's Diaspora 1655. Ethnographic Refraction: Exoticism and Diasporic Sisterhood in The Devil's Daughter 2016. No Storm in the Weather: Domestic Bliss and African American Performance 228Epilogue 256Notes 261Bibliography 299Index 317