A.M. Hernandez and the Global Details of Blackface Minstrelsy

2026/03/01 by Christofer A. Rodelo · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Cuban History and Society #Latin American and Latino Studies #Theater, Performance, and Music History

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s105420432510107x

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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.

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