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Item Description

Title: Black Image in White Vermont: The Origin, Meaning, and Abolition of Kake Walk

Author

• Loewen, James W.

Source Document

Description

At the time of this digital collection launch, this chapter is the only known scholarly piece on UVM's Kake Walk. James Loewen was a professor of sociology at the University of Vermont. This chapter was published in a book commemorating the university's bicentennial: Loewen, James. "Black Image in White Vermont: The Origin, Meaning, and Abolition of Kake Walk." The University of Vermont: The First Two Hundred Years. Sr. ed. Robert V. Daniels. Hanover, NH / University of Vermont : Distributed by University Press of New England / University of Vermont, 1991.

Genre(s): chapters (layout features)

Subject/topic

• African Americans in popular culture
• Alumni and alumnae
• Blackface entertainers
• Cakewalk (Dance)
• College students
• College teachers
• Committees
• Greek letter societies
• Minstrel shows
• Race discrimination
• Race relations
• Racism
• Stereotypes (Social psychology)
• Whites -- Race identity
• Civil rights
• Sexism

Subject/name

• University of Vermont

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2010-05-12, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Kake Walk at UVM

Access Conditions

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