Kellen Hoxworth
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY.
Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
Most likely did! Back in the early twentieth century, musical theatres even held giveaways of those dolls for kids in attendance.
November 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Most likely did! Back in the early twentieth century, musical theatres even held giveaways of those dolls for kids in attendance.
When I was researching my book on blackface throughout the British Empire, *several* Brits both insisted that blackface was a US thing *and* that they remembered the BBC’s Black and White Minstrel Show fondly.
My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
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It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
When I was researching my book on blackface throughout the British Empire, *several* Brits both insisted that blackface was a US thing *and* that they remembered the BBC’s Black and White Minstrel Show fondly.
My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
💙📚
📚👀
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
💙📚
📚👀
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
When I was researching my book on blackface throughout the British Empire, *several* Brits both insisted that blackface was a US thing *and* that they remembered the BBC’s Black and White Minstrel Show fondly.
Solidarity.
Just came across a citation of my scholarship, except it is a completely inaccurate citation that bears all the hallmarks of AI generated BS.
Where do I put this on my CV?
Where do I put this on my CV?
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Solidarity.
I view Oster as a symptom of a wider phenomenon, not its cause.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I view Oster as a symptom of a wider phenomenon, not its cause.
Ah okay. I see your point. Though I’d insist that it was economic thinking and the “back to business” mantra that drove a significant part of the anti-science misinformation.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Ah okay. I see your point. Though I’d insist that it was economic thinking and the “back to business” mantra that drove a significant part of the anti-science misinformation.
Hard agree, though it’s worth noting that Oster is a professor of economics.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Hard agree, though it’s worth noting that Oster is a professor of economics.
Spoiler alert: it’s musical theatre’s fault.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Spoiler alert: it’s musical theatre’s fault.
On this point, I have an essay coming out where I trace how this particular racial slur turned into the shorter and more ubiquitous racial slur for Black and Brown Brits.
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
On this point, I have an essay coming out where I trace how this particular racial slur turned into the shorter and more ubiquitous racial slur for Black and Brown Brits.
This is a bit from 30 Rock, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is a bit from 30 Rock, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Reposted by Kellen Hoxworth
Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now: