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Thompson, Katrina. "The Tainted and the Bleached: Black Performance and White Audience" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA, <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p35081_index.html>

Thompson, K. "The Tainted and the Bleached: Black Performance and White Audience" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p35081_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Paper Abstract: This dissertation examines an area rarely reviewed, the subjugation of African Americans through the artistic expression of music and dance. From the sixteenth century, with the entrance of Europeans and North Americans in West Africa, throughout the institution of slavery and until the 1920s with the rise of black artistic display in Harlem, black cultural development was greatly influenced by white domination through written works, forced activities and societal memory. My study focuses on the constant display of blacks singing and dancing for white audiences and the stereotype that develops within this display of the instinctive singer and dancer. Through the analysis, the term collective mentality will explain how whites were tainted through their dominance and blacks were bleached (figuratively) by external influences. Within the review, an analysis of black women’s over-sexualized roles in the performance arts, with a special emphasis on the Harlem Renaissance. The state and socially enforced behaviors, of singing and dancing, throughout the initial interaction of blacks and whites, subordinated blacks mentally and physically causing a lasting effect thus shaping a collective mentality of blacks and non-blacks in North America. The forced behavior of black performance does not negate the agency and importance of black artistic culture, which is also a key part of the work. The travel journals, ship logs, slave narratives, popular media and scholarly works from over five centuries will display the fluidity of the scenes of subjection with blacks consistently (being coerced and recorded) dancing and singing for a white audience.

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