"Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary": Racial Representation and Artistic Experimentation in the Films of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
This thesis engages with a major paradox in Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's Hollywood image - namely, its concurrent adherences to and contestations of dehumanising racial iconography - to reveal the ways in which performances of "blackness" work to both establish and challenge...
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| Format: | Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22089/ |