Trump White House report slams Smithsonian’s Entertainment Nation exhibit for linking Mickey Mouse to blackface minstrelsy ...

Stephen Foster was deeply attracted to this kind of ambience of the minstrel show. What legacy did blackface minstrelsy create for American culture today? Eric Lott: Minstrelsy is the first public ...

To fully appreciate its legacy, we must look beyond the jingly chorus and confront the uncomfortable context of its creation and initial reception. Originally titled “One Horse Open Sleigh,” the song ...

Thirty-six years ago a young man, about twenty-five years of age, of a commanding height, — six feet full, the heels of his boots not included in the reckoning, — and dressed in scrupulous keeping ...

“There have been two ways to look at things like minstrelsy. One way is to say: ‘Let’s forget it and look forward,’ and the other way is to say: ‘We will never forget,’” Louis Chude-Sokei said at the ...

This drawing of a performance of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus has given scholars an understanding of how blackface was used in Elizabethan England. Collection at Longleat House (Marquess of Bath) ...

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 at ...