"What's Love Got to Do with It?": A Roundtable on the Cultural Legacy of Eric W. Lott's Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class on Its Thirtieth Anniversary.

The article presents a roundtable on the cultural legacy of the book "Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class," by Eric W. Lott in celebration of the book's 30th anniversary. Topics discussed include the importance of the book in understanding the years leading up to the American Civil War, the impact of the book within academia across disciplines, and the archival research done by Lott for this book.