Minstrel Show
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the stage. The interlocutor then cracked jokes with the end men, and, for a finale, the company passed in review in the...around." This part of the minstrel show caricatured the black man, representing him by grotesque stereotypes that were retained in the minds of white American audiences...