Abstract: In Mississippi (1935) and Dixie (1943), the wildly successful Bing Crosby acts, croons, and clowns--in and out of blackface--in Southern roles that exemplify the unquestioned racism as well as the imaginative escapism that characterized other highly successful popular cultural artifacts of the era.
Key words: blackface; Crosby, Bing; Dixie; escapism; Mississippi; racism
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Many historians and social critics have remarked on the attractiveness of an ...