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 ...

Blackface, dark makeup worn by a performer in a caricature of the appearance of a Black person, is now widely considered unacceptable in mainstream American culture — but that wasn't always the case.

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minstrelsy should be vociferously condemned but its centrality in American culture cannot be denied. “Jim Crow,” the name ...

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 ...

Freeman Fisher Gosden and Charles Correll, c. 1935 (detail), as "Amos and Andy" unidentified artist, NPG, gift of an anonymous donor At the onset of the Great Depression, a time when financially ...

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 ...