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Minstrel Shows and the Construction of Black Identity
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Minstrel shows are both painful and significant in the history of the American South and American popular entertainment. They consisted of a performance involving song, dance, skits, and variety acts enacted completely in blackface—at first solely by white males, although later both women and African Americans became part of minstrel troupes.
Title: Minstrel Shows and the Construction of Black Identity
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Minstrel shows are both painful and significant in the history of the American South and American popular entertainment.
They consisted of a performance involving song, dance, skits, and variety acts enacted completely in blackface—at first solely by white males, although later both women and African Americans became part of minstrel troupes.
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