Join Book Culture on Wednesday, August 5th at 7pm for a discussion with Rhae Lynn Barnes on her recent book, Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment. CSER Prof. Karl Jacoby will join in conversation.

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Named one of the Best Books of the Month by the New York Times, TIME, and Kirkus Reviews, and a national bestseller!

A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.

Rhae Lynn Barnes is an assistant professor of American cultural history at Princeton University and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Karl Jacoby is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. He is the author of three prize-winning books: Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation; Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History; and The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire.