Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race - Paperbackby Nomie Ndiaye (Author), Geraldine Heng (Editor), Ayanna Thompson (Editor) Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism. In this book, Nomie Ndiaye explores the techniques of impersonation used by