Eric Lott

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Eric Lott
Lott at the Seattle Pop Conference 2015
Born1959 (age 65–66)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationDistinguished Professor of English
AwardsMLA's "Best First Book" (1994), Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights (1994), Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians (1994)
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
Academic work
DisciplineAmerican Studies, African American Literature and Culture
InstitutionsThe Graduate Center, CUNY
Notable worksLove and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1993), Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism (2017)

Eric Lott (born 1959) is an American

, CUNY in New York City.[1] The son of Richard L. (an attorney) and Judith K. (an administrator) Lott, Eric Lott was previously a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Virginia.[2]

Lott received his Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University. His book about the origins, evolution, and cultural significance of blackface minstrelsy, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1993), received the 1994 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians and the first annual Modern Language Association's "Best First Book" prize, and the 1994 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights.[3]

Love and Theft extensively documents the

African American culture."[5]

Love and Theft from that of Lott's book; Lott, in turn, considered his own title "a riff on" Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel.[6]

His writing has also appeared in numerous publications, such as

Village Voice, The Nation, Transition, and American Quarterly. He is one of the co-directors of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College.[7]

Lott's latest book, Black Mirror, extends his views on the contradictions of American racism to more contemporary themes, including the presidency of Barack Obama, Elvis impersonation, and Dylan's Love and Theft. The analysis in the book is heavily driven by Marxist analysis regarding "surplus value," which is extended to an analysis of the "symbolic capital" of cultural appropriation.[8]

Books

  • The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual (2006)
  • Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1993; 2nd ed., 2013)
  • Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism (2017)

Notes

  1. ^ "The GC's Eric Lott Is Promoted to Distinguished Professor". www.gc.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-01-26. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  2. ^ Biography Archived 2019-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, gc.cuny.edu. Accessed March 12, 2024.
  3. ^ Nationally acclaimed author to give Nye Lecture as part of Ethnomusicology Forum Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine University of Michigan, April 15, 1999. Accessed August 10, 2006.
  4. ^ Love and Theft, passim.
  5. Experience Music Project
    , 2005. Accessed August 10, 2006.
  6. ^ David McNair and Jayson Whitehead interview with Lott on Gadfly Online. Accessed August 10, 2006.
  7. ^ "Futures of American Studies Institute". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  8. ^ "Black Mirror by Eric Lott". onlinereviewofbooks.com. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
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