Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer
by
Michelle Ann Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin. She situates each figure within his...