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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670309211 Title: The battle before "The Souls of Black Folk": Black performance in the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Author: Amma Y Ghartey-Tagoe; Awam Amkpa; Jennifer L Morgan; Tavia Nyong'o; Diana Taylor Publisher: 2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9781109505078 1109505078 OCLC:670309211

  
  

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The battle before "The Souls of Black Folk": Black performance in the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.

Author:	Amma Y Ghartey-Tagoe; Awam Amkpa; Jennifer L Morgan; Tavia Nyong'o; Diana Taylor
Publisher:	2009.
Dissertation:	Ph. D. New York University 2009
Edition/Format:	Thesis/dissertation : Document : Thesis/dissertation : eBook  Computer File : English
Publication:	Dissertation Abstracts International, 70-12A.
Summary:	African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois not only formulated his central theories concerning the predicament of black identity at the turn of the twentieth century in writing, he also exhibited them through a museum-style display called the American Negro Exhibit. In this dissertation, I argue that his display, which was featured at the Paris world's fair in 1900 and made its American debut at Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition (PAX) in 1901, performed central ideas in The Souls of Black Folk, two years before his definitive text was published. Operating at the intersection of performance studies, visual culture studies, and African American history, I analyze this exhibit and two other performances at PAX---Darkest Africa and Old Plantation---to demonstrate how Du Boisian concepts such as double-consciousness, the Veil, two-ness, and the Talented Tenth were literally performed in the early twentieth century world that Du Bois describes. The dissertation further demonstrates that these displays mediated perceptions not only of and within the African American population, but also between Africans and African Americans. As a comparative reading of Souls and these three performances at the Pan-Am Exposition, the dissertation demonstrates that Du Bois's most salient theories on African American identity were not just written metaphors as contemporary scholars have often lauded, but that they were also performed realities perhaps better understood in the context of a world's fair.  Read more...
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Subjects	African Americans. African American Studies. Black Studies. View all subjects
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