Minstrelsy, blackface, and racialized performance in narrative stereoviews, 1860-1902
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2022
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This essay looks at the influence of blackface minstrelsy on stereoviews of British and American publication from 1860-1902, within a transatlantic perspective. Using Black and blackface models, as well as hand-coloring, or “photographic blackface”, stereoview publishers employed ready cultural codes from minstrelsy for racialized performance in order to posit an antithesis to whiteness for comic effect. Taking a “yes, it’s racist and” approach, this paper demonstrates that narrative stereoviews were informed by minstrelsy’s codes of white racial superiority and Black inferiority, and these codes could be destabilized through over-signage and contradictory or crossed signifiers. Binaries of race, gender and sexuality in the stereoviews can become un- stable, while the stereoview’s two photographs contribute to this effect by offering an already doubleness that, when applied to race, suggests a relation more close than different.
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IJSIM : International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media
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FOTOGRAFIA, ESTEREOSCOPIA, ETNIA NEGRA, RACISMO, PHOTOGRAPHY, STEREOSCOPY, BLACK ETHNIC GROUP, RACISM