Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
by
Louis Chude-Sokei
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams...