Awards

• Nominated for Albert J. Beveridge Award 2006
• Nominated for James A. Rawley Prize 2006
• Nominated for John H. Dunning Prize 2007
• Nominated for OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award 2006

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Nowadays black minstrels are not seen as black performers trapped into humiliating roles, but as black performers helping to define what blackness was. Karen Sotiropoulos, in her extremely useful history, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America, argues that the popular stage was a part of the political debate. -- Darryl Pinckney New York Review of Books 20060713 By examining the history of leading black artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sotiropoulos addresses an important and often overlooked aspect of African American history. Staging Race is a valuable addition to the field of cultural studies and offers readers a new perspective on the role of commercial amusements and celebrity artists in the transformation of American race relations during the twentieth century. -- Scott A. Newman Journal of American History 20061201

Nowadays black minstrels are not seen as black performers trapped into humiliating roles, but as black performers helping to define what blackness was. Karen Sotiropoulos, in her extremely useful history, Staging Race, argues that the popular stage was a part of the political debate. - Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books Staging Race is a valuable addition to the field of cultural studies and offers readers a new perspective on the role of commercial amusements and celebrity artists in the transformation of American race relations during the twentieth century. - Scott A. Newman, Journal of American History

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Karen Sotiropoulos is Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University.

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