Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism
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Chapter 2
Harlequin as Theatergram: Transmitting the Timeworn Black Mask, Ancient to Antebellum
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Chapter 3
Beyond Good and Evil Symbolism: Allegories and Metaphysics of Blackfaced Folly from Augustine to Fanon
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Chapter 4
From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype, Zip Coon, Jim Crow, and Blackface-on-Black Violence
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Chapter 5
Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations of Stereotypically Black Speech
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Chapter 6
Blackface in Shakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories of Folly and Speech—Cleopatra, Caliban, Othello
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Chapter 7
Shakespeare in Blackface: Black Shakespeareans versus Minstrel Burlesques, 1821–1844, or Othello versus Otello
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Chapter 8
Conclusion: A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism
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Chapter 9
Afterword: White Nationalism, Trolling Humor as Propaganda, and the “Renaissance” of Christian Racism in the Age of Trump
Attention for Chapter 4:
From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype, Zip Coon, Jim Crow, and Blackface-on-Black Violence