minstrel show in English

noun
1
a popular stage entertainment featuring songs, dances, and comic dialogue in highly conventionalized patterns, usually performed by white actors in blackface. It developed in the US in the early and mid 19th century.
Most of this was in vaudeville, where black casts replaced black-faced ones and performed the minstrel show songs and dances to delighted white audiences.

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1. This isn't a minstrel show.

2. The end man in a minstrel show.

3. Blackface minstrelsy, indigenous American theatrical form that constituted a subgenre of the minstrel show

4. She was lead singer in the Black and White Minstrel Show during the 70s.

5. Http://flixdump.com/movie-67481-Download-Bamboozled.htmA frustrated African American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chag

6. ‘Bamboozled’ is the Forgotten Gem in Spike Lee’s Career A new Criterion Collection edition of the 2000 film—about a primetime TV minstrel show that becomes a …

7. Merriam Webster defines Blackface as, “dark makeup worn (as by a performer in a minstrel show) in a caricature of the appearance of a black person,” or “a

8. “Aunt Jemima” was a minstrel show character developed during the mid-1850s by a white male in blackface dressed as a black woman, designed to entertain white audiences.