Table of Contents

Black LikeList of Illustrations

1. A Pestilence of Ignunce: Blackface in the Twenty-First Century

2. Queer People of the World: Africans on Display

3. Black Like You: Blackface Minstrelsy, The Rock & Roll Years

4. "You May Be a Hawaiian on Broadway . . .": The Minstrel Show, Coon Songs & Vaudeville

5. Black Ink: Negro-Dialect Literature

6. Black & White Film, Reel One: Uncle Tom's Cinema

7. Black & White Film, Reel Two: From Race Movies to White Chicks

8. Black Market: Negrobilia and Black Americana

9. Yackety Yack, Don't Talk Black: Ebonics and American English

10. Pimp Jim Crow: Wiggaz, Niggaz & a Wonky

Afterword: Trickin' the Paddies with Uncle Aglio e Oglio by Darius James

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