Blackface and blackness: the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft: "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all: working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America: popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit": early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine Negro fun": racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution: Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes: racial melodrama and modes of production.