Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity Oneida California becomes full of dangers

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Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity Oneida California becomes full of dangersRedface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even more crucially, exclude them from full citizenship in the United States. Arguing that redface is more than just the costumes or makeup an actor wears, Bethany Hughes contends that it is a collaborative, curatorial process through which artists and