Blackface!

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Sources

The following books were my primary sources and are recommended for further reading:

Monarchs of Minstrelsy -- Edward Le Roy Rice
Black Like Me -- John Strausbaugh
Raising Cain, Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop -- W. T. Lhamon Jr.
Love and Theft, Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class -- Eric Lott
Inside the Minstrel Mask, Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy -- Annemarie Bean
Black Film/White Money -- Jesse Algeron Rhines
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks -- Donald Bogle
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, The Story of Black Hollywood -- Donald Bogle
Prime Time Blues, African Americans on Network Television -- Donald Bogle
Introducing Bert Williams -- Camille F. Forbes
Nobody, The Story of Bert Williams -- Ann Charters
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow -- Richard Wormser
Channeling Blackness -- Darnell M. Hunt

Works in Progress
Blackface Origins in Clowning
Blackface History Prior to Minstrel Shows
 Excerpts from Monarchs of Minstrelsy (1911)
Famous Blackface Minstrel Performers

Racial and Racist Stereotypes in Media

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