A.M. Hernandez and the Global Details of Blackface Minstrelsy
Abstract
Cuban-born A.M. Hernandez traveled to the United States in the late 1840s and performed in various US blackface minstrel troupes from the 1850s through the 1870s. His movements across Cuban and US borders show how his participation in blackface minstrelsy reflected global logics of race and antiblackness, pushing existing studies of blackface to consider subjects whose lives exist transnationally.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Theater
Performance
and Music History
Arts and Performance Studies
Theatre and Performance Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- TDR/The Drama Review
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 95–109
- Publication date
- 1 March 2026
- Language
- EN