The shamelessness reached a new peak on May 31 when McMahon held a press conference at Massapequa High School in Long Island, ...

Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we today would call African Americans, have been involved in local entertainment. They are the fiddlers ...

Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we today would call African Americans, have been involved in local entertainment. They are the fiddlers ...

in 2015. (Doug Kapustin for The Washington Post) Perspective by Marc Aronson In the last few months, the seemingly antique practice of blackface minstrelsy has burst back into the headlines.

For Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the author of “Neighbors,” the play amounts to an investigation of “a 300-year history of black people in the theater,” and minstrelsy was its undeniable origin.

And yet this obvious racism was America’s absolute favorite art form for decades. This was minstrelsy. Minstrel shows started in New York City in 1843, when four white musicians “blacked up ...

Already we are experiencing the stink of its machine learning around identity, in how it treats Blackness, of how it happily twists fantasy into gross minstrelsy. In one video—captioned “Will ...

Blackface minstrelsy traveled to Britain, was rebooted by Hollywood, and endured to make its mark on 21st-century television.

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The song, with its lyrics about “bliss” and “joy,” traces its origins back to the cultural phenomenon of the mid-19th century known as blackface minstrelsy, Grace Soelberg, a recent ...

A minstrel performs at a restaurant in Erzurum, Türkiye, April 27, 2025. The minstrelsy tradition is a unique art form in Türkiye. Minstrels usually play the saz to accompany themselves ...

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