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Paperback The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora Book

ISBN: 082233643x

ISBN13: 9780822336433

The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

(Part of the a John Hope Franklin Center Book Series)

The Last "Darky" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed...

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