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Description
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
Recommended Citation
Richards, Paulette, "Always Busy Somewhere: Cooper Crafts an Entrée for the Other" (2023). Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects. Edited by John Bell, Matthew Isaac Cohen, and Jungmin Song.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/ballinst_alterity/4
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