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African American ventriloquist John W . Cooper toured for a time with Richards and Pringle’s Famous Georgia Minstrels, but did not appear in blackface. Instead he used figures to get audiences to recognize the humanity and agency of a Black man.

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

University Of Connecticut

City

Storrs

Keywords

puppet, representation, race and ethnicity, ventriloquism, vaudeville, performance studies

Disciplines

American Studies | Arts and Humanities | Other Theatre and Performance Studies | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History

Always Busy Somewhere: Cooper Crafts an Entrée for the Other

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