Scripts of Blackness
Ndiaye, Noémie / Heng, Geraldine / Thompson, Ayanna![Scripts of Blackness](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/449/44914333/CHSBZCOP0344914333.jpg)
Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism.
In this book, Noémie Ndiaye explores the techniques of impersonation used by white performers to represent Afro-diasporic people in England, Fran...