Vroman’s Bookstore: Rhae Lynn Barnes & David M. Henkin discuss & sign, Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment & Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball
Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. With Darkology, Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes meticulously unravels the complex, subterranean, and all-too-often expunged history of "Darkology"--the insidious study, commodification, and dehumanization of Black life, through which performers caricatured the enslaved and formerly enslaved for […]
