Blackface dates back to the minstrel shows of the mid-19th century where white actors darkened their skin with shoe polish or burnt cork, exaggerated their features and wore tattered clothing to ...

These included songs from one of the principal ways songs traveled from town to town: itinerant minstrel shows – white professional musicians, dressed in blackface, who danced and performed ...

“It’s like a minstrel show lampooning white, Midwest stereotypes.” Several critics pointed out that Walz had won a recipe contest in 2016 for a taco dish with paprika and chilli ...

Jackson's performance, in silhouette, reveals the excitement, novelty, and energy of performances that brought enormous audiences to minstrel shows in Foster's day.

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white ...