Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop

By W.T. Lhamon Jr.

Book Overview

This is the story of an insubordinate, rebellious, popular culture stretching from Jim Crow to Hip hop. It is a look at how outcasts of official culture have made their own place in the world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674747119
• ISBN13: 9780674747111
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"