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After the war, minstrel performers were as likely to be actual Blacks as blackfaced Whites.
Jane Chafin: Breaking the Taboos of Blackface Minstrelsy Jane Chafin 2011
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After the war, minstrel performers were as likely to be actual Blacks as blackfaced Whites.
Jane Chafin: Breaking the Taboos of Blackface Minstrelsy Jane Chafin 2011
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After the war, minstrel performers were as likely to be actual Blacks as blackfaced Whites.
Jane Chafin: Breaking the Taboos of Blackface Minstrelsy Jane Chafin 2011
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When the tape of a blackfaced act originating in Australia was seen in the United States, the revulsion was immediate, calling to mind Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in blackface nearly a hundred years ago.
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When the tape of a blackfaced act originating in Australia was seen in the United States, the revulsion was immediate, calling to mind Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in blackface nearly a hundred years ago.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: RNC Puts Obama In Whiteface 2010
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When the tape of a blackfaced act originating in Australia was seen in the United States, the revulsion was immediate, calling to mind Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in blackface nearly a hundred years ago.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: RNC Puts Obama In Whiteface Michael Conniff 2010
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Among these are the harpy eagle Harpia harpiya, whitefaced antcatcher Pithys albifrons and blackfaced antcreeper Myrmoborus myotherinus.
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And so, finally, to celebrate Barack Obama's rise to leadership as an "only in America" story is an insult—it's a way of using him for one's own, ultimately racist purposes, like a cartoonish, blackfaced puppet.
Proudly Hail Obama's Rise As Something That Could Only Happen In America Renee 2009
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And so, finally, to celebrate Barack Obama's rise to leadership as an "only in America" story is an insult—it's a way of using him for one's own, ultimately racist purposes, like a cartoonish, blackfaced puppet.
Archive 2009-02-01 Renee 2009
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So, are these pictures that we're talking about, the blackfaced ones, are they avant-garde?
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