‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career

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‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career

This paper engages with a major paradox in African American tap dancer Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film image – namely, its concurrent adherences to and contestations of dehumanising racial iconography – to reveal the complex and often ambivalent ways in which identity is staged and enacted. Al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Durkin, Hannah
Format:	Article
Published:	Routledge 2012
Subjects:	Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson tap dance minstrelsy specialty number classical Hollywood
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30953/

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