Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy by Brooks McNamara

Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy

Brooks McNamara with Mel Watkins

324 pages • first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction essays history race
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 A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.As the blackface minstrel show evolved from its beginnings in the American Revolution to its peak during the late 1800s, its frenetic dances, low...

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