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Eric Lott

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MLA's "Best First Book" (1994), Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights (1994), Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians
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for Lott's plenary talk "Love and Theft Revisited: Poseurs and Playas from Blackface to Hip-Hop (And What This All Means for Rock and Roll)" at the
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desire for Black men's bodies; he also argues that "mixed in with vicious parodies and lopsided appropriation, minstrelsy involved a real love of
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extends his views on the contradictions of American racism to more contemporary themes, including the presidency of
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inherent in blackface performance; Lott also argues that it demonstrates a current of
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Nationally acclaimed author to give Nye Lecture as part of Ethnomusicology Forum
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from that of Lott's book; Lott, in turn, considered his own title "a
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
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University of Michigan, April 15, 1999. Accessed August 10, 2006.
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His writing has also appeared in numerous publications, such as
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Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism
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Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism
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American Studies, African American Literature and Culture
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is widely reported to have taken the title of his album
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Eric J. Lott

Alma mater
cultural historian
The Graduate Center
, CUNY
New York City
University of Virginia
Columbia University
blackface
minstrelsy
Avery O. Craven
Organization of American Historians
Modern Language Association's
racism
cultural appropriation
homosexual
African American
Bob Dylan
Love and Theft
riff
Leslie Fiedler
Village Voice
The Nation
Transition
American Quarterly
Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College
Barack Obama
Marxist

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