Contemporary Blackface in Canada
- Alvarez, N., & Johnson, S. (2011). Canadian Theatre Review, 147, 31鈥37.
- Howard, P.S.S. (2018) 鈥淎 Laugh for the National Project: Contemporary Canadian Blackface Humour and its Constitution through Canadian Anti-Blackness.鈥 Ethnicities. (Published online: July 8, 2018).
- Howard, P.S.S. (2017) 鈥淥n the back of Blackness:听Contemporary Canadian blackface and the consumptive production of post-racialist, white Canadian subjects.鈥澨 Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.听(Published online: January 23, 2017).
Other Media:
- Howard, P.S.S (2018) .听 The Conversation.听
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- Nelson, C.听 (2013) 听听
Blackface Minstrelsy in Canada (Historical)
- Johnson, S. (Ed.). (2012).听Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy. University of Massachusetts Press.
- Johnson, S.听 (1999)听鈥淯ncle Tom and the Minstrels: Seeing Black and White on Stage in Canada West prior to the American Civil War.鈥 In (Post)Colonial Stages: Critical & Creative Views on Drama, Theatre & Performance, ed. Helen Gilbert, 55-63.
- Johnson, S. (2017)听 鈥淪hield us from this base ridicule鈥: the petitions to censor blackface circus clowns, Toronto, 1840-43. In Davis-Fisch, H (ed), Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies.听 Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press. 254-279.
- Le Camp, L. (2005). "Racial considerations of minstrel shows and related images in Canada" (doctoral dissertation). Toronto: University of Toronto.
- Nicks, J & Sloniowski, J. (2010)听鈥淓ntertaining Niagara Falls, Ontario: Minstrel Shows, Theatres and Popular Pleasures.鈥 In Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture, eds. Joan Nicks and Barry Keith Grant, pp. 285-310. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
- Thompson, B.C. (2015). Anthems and minstrel shows: The life and times of Calixa Lavall茅e, 1842鈥1891. Montreal: 平特五不中-Queen鈥檚 University Press.
Contemporary Blackface Elsewhere
- Chauvin, S., Y. Coenders & T. Koren (2017) 听Article forthcoming in Public Culture.听听
- Coenders, Y., & Chauvin, S. (2017). Race and the Pitfalls of Emotional Democracy: Primary Schools and the Critique of Black Pete in the Netherlands.听Antipode.
- Patton, T.O.听 (2008). Jim Crow on Fraternity Row: A study of the Phenomenon of Blackface in the White Southern Fraternal Order.听Visual Communication Quarterly, 15(3): 150-168.
Some General Reading on Blackface and Racial Humour
- Ellison, R. (1964). Shadow and Act. New York: Random House.
- Hartman S (1997) Introduction and Innocent Amusements.听 In S. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Introduction & Chapter 1). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Howard, P.S.S. (2015)听Drawing Dissent: Post-Racialist Pedagogy, Racist Literacy, and Racial Plagiarism in Anti-Obama Political Cartoons.鈥澨 Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 36(5), 386-402
- Mueller J.C, Dirks D, Picca L.H. (2007) Unmasking racism: Halloween costuming and engagement of the racial other. Qualitative Sociology, 30(3): 315-335.
- Roediger, D. R. (1999). White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and 鈥渨hite鈥 Working Class Formation before the Civil War.听 In D.R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class, Chapter 6).听 London: Verso.