Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy by Stephen Johnson

Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy

Stephen Johnson

280 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy—stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans—remained arguably the most popular entertainment in North America. A renewed scholarly ...

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