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Always Busy Somewhere: Cooper Crafts An Entrée For The Other, Paulette Richards
Always Busy Somewhere: Cooper Crafts An Entrée For The Other, Paulette Richards
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
African American ventriloquist John W . Cooper toured for a time with Richards and Pringle’s Famous Georgia Minstrels, but did not appear in blackface. Instead he used figures to get audiences to recognize the humanity and agency of a Black man.