Shank, Barry. "Bliss, or Blackface Sentiment." Boundary 2- An International Journal of Literature and Culture 30.2 (2003)- 47-64
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  1. 49 Bliss/Sunraider blackface to destroy black/white Manicheism
  2. 50 Whiteness depends on "fiction of racial difference" and knowledge of black folklore
  3. 51 Ellison has etic experience of Tuskeegee graduation ceremony
  4. 52 Gaines, Kevin. Uplifting the Race: Black elites project racial pathology onto other blacks
  5. 53 Hurston claims inauthenticity of blackface minstrels
  6. 54 asserts racially bounded culture hypstatizes/essentializes race
  7. 54 antifoundational relation to production of blackface
  8. 55 Ellison aesthetisizes mask
  9. 57 considers narrator's smashing of "grotesque blackface bank"
  10. 58 politics and techniques of the mask
  11. 59 Clifton shot by police: compare to Bamboozled?
  12. 63 Paul Gilroy's assertion that identity is about "we"
  13. 64 Antifoundational appears to mean antiessential
  14. 55 Ellison reads mask as sign that represses white moral self-awareness and humanization of blacks

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