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What The Hell Was The Deal With Black-Face Minstrel Shows?



In the midst of researching this very question:


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This link is halfway decent as a starting point. One of the weirdest things in that link is that supposedly some black entertainers also performed in blackface… WTF?







1 Reader Responses

  1. Nadine Says:
    May 2nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    This brought to mind Spike Lee’s Bamboozled - flawed, but inspired.

    Also of interest:

    http://cndls.georgetown.edu/applicatio...tion=poster.display&posterID=2396



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