Examples of blackface in the following topics:
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- Blackface minstrelsy, which portrayed African Americans in stereotyped, troubling ways, was the first distinctly American theatrical form.
- Blackface minstrelsy was the first distinctly
American theatrical form, influencing theater and popular music throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century.
- The shows typically involved African instruments and
dance and featured performers with their faces blackened—a technique called "blackface."
- An illustration from the playbill for a minstrel show, highlighting singing and dancing by actors in blackface.
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- Rice in blackface.
- Rice is pictured in his blackface role; he was performing at the Bowery Theatre (also known as the "American Theatre") at the time.
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- Two well-known blackface comedians were Thomas "Daddy" Rice and Edwin Christy.
- This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the blackface transformation from white to "black. "
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instance, blackface minstrelsy, which portrayed African Americans in
stereotyped, troubling ways, is considered by many to be the first distinctly
American theatrical art form.
- White actors often performed minstrel shows while wearing "blackface," or exaggerated black makeup.
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- Blackface performances—in which
white people donned costumes and extensive makeup to appear black and portrayed African Americans as ignorant clowns—were still just as popular in the North as in the South.
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- The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" often has been attributed to "Jump Jim Crow," a song-and-dance caricature of blacks performed in blackface by white actor Thomas D.
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- They rejected the stereotypes of the blackface and minstrel show traditions.