A detailed history of the modern minstrel show, tracing its controversial role in American culture from the 19th century to its decline in the 1950s.
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A detailed history of the modern minstrel show, tracing its controversial role in American culture from the 19th century to its decline in the 1950s.
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The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "mod...
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Central focus on racial and cultural issues in American entertainment history.
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Discusses systemic racism and exploitation in minstrelsy.
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