Rowdy Carousals Rowdy Carousals
Studies Theatre Hist & Culture

Rowdy Carousals

The Bowery Boy on Stage, 1848-1913

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Publisher Description

Rowdy Carousals makes important interventions in nineteenth-century theatre history with regard to the Bowery Boy, a raucous, white, urban character most famously exemplified by Mose from A Glance at New York in 1848. Theatrical representations of the Bowery Boy emphasized the privileges of whiteness against nonwhite workers including enslaved and free African Americans during the Antebellum Period, an articulation of white superiority that continued through the early twentieth century with Jewish, Italian, and Chinese immigrants.

The book’s examination of working-class whiteness on stage, in the theatre, and in print culture invites theatre historians and critics to check the impulse to downplay or ignore questions about race and ethnicity in discussion of the Bowery Boy. J. Chris Westgate further explores links between the Bowery Boy’s rowdyism in the nineteenth century and the resurgence of white supremacy in the early twenty-first century.

 

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2024
1 July
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
294
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Iowa Press
SIZE
18.1
MB
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