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Hardcover Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop Book

ISBN: 0393070980

ISBN13: 9780393070989

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop

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Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a black art form--and embraced it as such. And, as the authors reveal, black minstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popular black...

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