"Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary": Racial Representation and Artistic Experimentation in the Films of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Durkin, Hannah Kate
Format:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2008
Subjects:	African American film performance dance identity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22089/

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