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Sambo [electronic resource] : the rise & demise of an American jester / Joseph Boskin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 252 p. [8] p. of plates) : illISBN:
  • 9780195363531 (electronic bk.)
  • 0195363531 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sambo.DDC classification:
  • 306.4/84/08996073 22
LOC classification:
  • E169.1 .B67 1988eb
Online resources:
Contents:
An epitaph read backward in time -- As his name is, so is he -- Ladies and gentlemen: your attention please! Would you welcome the first American entertainer, Sambo!! -- And performing today at balls, circuses, theatres, picnics, churches, schools, and prisons- the indomitable, spirited, laughing- Jim Crow, esquire! -- Impressions in boldface -- Prismatic projections -- The camera eye -- The radio ear: the odd-couples connection -- The fool as an emancipator.
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eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Social Science Available
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-243) and index.

An epitaph read backward in time -- As his name is, so is he -- Ladies and gentlemen: your attention please! Would you welcome the first American entertainer, Sambo!! -- And performing today at balls, circuses, theatres, picnics, churches, schools, and prisons- the indomitable, spirited, laughing- Jim Crow, esquire! -- Impressions in boldface -- Prismatic projections -- The camera eye -- The radio ear: the odd-couples connection -- The fool as an emancipator.

Description based on print version record.

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