feedback: The Minstrel Shows

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When did they emerge?

Was most popular musical stage shows of the early and mid 19th century
founded by comic enactment of racial stereotypes
featured exaggerated protrayal f african american music. culture. vernacular english for entertainment
performers both white and black donned blackface
shows white men blackening their faces wit burnt court to lampoon blacks
sentimentalised s;ave life on southern plantations
blacks were showed as native buffoons who sand and danced the days away
stealing occasional watermelon
expressing their inexplicable love for ol mash
minstrel was the first example of the way american culture would exploit and manipulate afro-americans and their culture

coon- silent and uneducated adult male
mammie- an overweight older black maid mother like character
pickaninny- unkept and uneducated malnourished black male child

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