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Danielle Roper on Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Danielle Roper on Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Update: 2025-09-09
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This is Fatima Seck and today’s discussion is with Dr. Danielle Roper, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago from Kingston, Jamaica. She is also the curator of the digital exhibit: Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive.  She is from Kingston, Jamaica.

In this conversation, we discuss her latest monograph Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas. Dr. Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas.

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Danielle Roper on Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Danielle Roper on Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy