Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture - Softcover

Van Deburg, William L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299096343 ISBN 13: 9780299096342

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984

Synopsis

In this ambitious work, William L. Van Deburg offers the first inter-disciplinary survey of American popular culture and its historical attitudes toward slavery and race. Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers, and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of our current racial attitudes and divisions. Anyone interested in American history, Afro-American studies, slavery, mass culture, or literature will find this work to be essential reading, both as far-ranging cultural history and as an important study of how we came to be a nation still enslaved by popular stereotypes,

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About the Author

William L. Van Deburg is associate professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He has contributed numerous articles on Afro-American history and slavery to scholarly journals and is the author of The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0299096343
• ISBN 13: 9780299096342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Numbers Ronald L.