Friday, March 26, 2010

The Minstrel Show

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Radio show: "The Legacy of Blackface: Artists Take On Roots of Racist Performance Tradition" The Tavis Smiley Show June 2, 2004
Radio show: Any three episodes of Amos 'n' Andy (http://www.archive.org/details/amosandy1)
Play: The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet
Film: Bamboozled (2000)
Album: The Minstrel Show by Little Brother
Poem: "The Corner-Man" by Banjo Paterson
Nonfiction: Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch and Brooks McNamara
Novel: Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
Nonfiction: "A Pestilence of Ignunce: Blackface in the Twenty-first Century" (chapter one of Black like you : blackface, whiteface, insult & imitation in American popular culture)
Wikipedia: Minstrel show

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