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Ndiaye, Noémie. Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Examines the representation of Black characters by white performers in 16th and 17th century England, France, and Spain. The book traces the performative technologies used by such performers—anchoring its analysis upon blackface, coded speech patterns, and dances—in order to incubate racializing conceptualizations of Black personhood among performers and audiences across Europe. The book engages conversations in performance studies, Blackness, the study of embodiment, and colonialism.
