Blackface at the Andean Fiesta: Performing Blackness in the Danza de Caporales
This study assesses the deployment of blackface in a performance of the Danza de Caporales at La Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria in Puno, Peru, by the performance troupe Sambos Illimani con Sentimiento y Devoción. Since blackface is so widely associated with the nineteenth-century US blackface...
Main Author: | Danielle Roper |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019-06-01
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Series: | Latin American Research Review |
Online Access: | https://larrlasa.org/articles/300 |
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