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Dirty Dragging

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Transformative Dispositions

Evelyn Annuß


Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. Apartheid


Queering

Collecting (Kewpie)

Creolizing

Carnivalizing (Guys, Klopse, Atjas)
Dirty Facing (Jim Crow, Zip Coons)
Blackface, Moffies
Reenacting

II. Nazism


Debarbarizing

Braun (Brown)
Decreolizing (Baker, Krenek)
Oddkinships I (Benjamin, Kafka)
Exoticisms (Revue)

Indigenizing

Thing (Euringer, Heynicke)
Volkskunde (Wolfram, Perchten)

III. Jim Crow


Vexations

Terror (Ku Klux Klan)
Control (Comus)
Complicities (Tramps)

Second Lining

Iconoclasms (Zulu)
Oddkinships II (Krewe du Jieux, Krewe of Julu)
“Other” Indigenizations (Black Indians)
Performing Otherwise (Baby Dolls)

Postscript

Appendix


Archives

Bibliography

Films

Figures

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