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Minstrelsy, or comedic performances of “Blackness” by whites in exaggerated costumes and make-up, cannot be separated from the racial derision and stereotyping at its core. The first minstrel shows were performed in the 1830s by white performers with Blackened faces (most used burnt cork or shoe polish). These performers wore tattered clothing and imitated and mocked enslaved African Americans on Southern plantations. Blackface became particularly popular between the end of the Civil War and the
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The origins of blackface date back to the minstrel shows of mid-19th century. White performers darkened their skin with polish and cork, put on tattered clothing and exaggerated their features to look stereotypically “black.” The first minstrel shows mimicked enslaved Africans on Southern plantations, depicting black people as lazy, ignorant, cowardly and hypersexual. #Blackface invokes a racist and painful history...intended to be funny to white audiences but rather to the black community, deme
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