Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions: From the Old World to the New

1.Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism. 2. Harlequin as Theatergram: Transmitting the Time-Worn Black Mask, Ancient to Antebellum. 3. Beyond Good and Evil Symbolism: Allegories and Metaphysics of Blackfaced Folly. 4. From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype and Blackface-on-Black Violence. 5. Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations of Stereotypically Black Speech. 6. Blackface in Shakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories of Folly and Speech. 7. Shakespeare in Blackface: Black Shakespeareans vs. Minstrel Burlesques, 1821-1844. 8. A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism. 9. White Nationalism, Trolling Humor as Propaganda, and the "Renaissance" of Christian Racism in the Age of Trump.