| 单词 | minstrel show |
| 例句 | “I’ve heard them talk. He talks like they do in minstrel shows.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After the skits, Dad sometimes would put on a one-man minstrel show for us, in which he played the parts of both the Messrs. Jones and Bones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people of any race would probably condemn the minstrel show but stop short of condemning the minstrel as a man. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Gangsta rap—while it may amount to little more than a minstrel show when it appears on MTV today—has its roots in the struggle for a positive identity among outcasts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The new racial order, known as Jim Crow—a term apparently derived from a minstrel show character—was regarded as the “final settlement,” the “return to sanity,” and “the permanent system.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is difficult to look at pictures of black people performing in minstrel shows during the Jim Crow era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Like the minstrel shows of the slavery and Jim Crow eras, today’s displays are generally designed for white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Historians have long debated why blacks would attend minstrel shows when the images and content were so blatantly racist. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is the 1910s, and he is an actor hopping a boxcar on his way to a minstrel show. Review: In ‘Freight,’ a Black Man Follows the Script for Five Incarnations 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Like some minstrel show jokester, Davenport reported that black people excelled at music but trailed whites in complex mental activities. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z It was a prejudice that stretched as far back as Thomas Jefferson in his “Notes on the State of Virginia” and was later reinforced by minstrel shows. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Entirely sonic, the Sims piece is based on a single familiar song, “Dixie,” composed for pre-Civil War minstrel shows and meant to mock clichés of “happy” Black slave life. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z There's that, and the fact that he looks massively uncomfortable as the white guests cheer at a queasy minstrel show staged at Lift's insistence. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Abdurraqib, a poet, cultural critic and essayist, uses the tales of Black performers to make powerful observations about race in America, gliding through music, television, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The problem with reenacting a blackface minstrel show, even to make a political point, is that on some level, it is still a blackface minstrel show. Ben Vereen, Ronald Reagan and the travesty of blackface, potently remembered 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z For all the reworking, the show’s narrative structure remains intact: the tale of the Scottsboro Boys unfolds as a minstrel show. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z So much about the show is totally phony, but there's a core of reality to the people, even though they're all obviously playacting and putting on kind of guido minstrel show. "Jersey Shore" recap: 4x1 2011-08-05T12:30:00Z Perhaps even more disturbingly, there’s something inherently soothing about such stereotypes for mass audiences – a point particularly relevant to the wild popularity of Bamboozled’s own minstrel show. Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Reynolds dissects dozens of imitative novels, plays and minstrel shows — some against, others for slavery or segregation — and traces the influence of Stowe's novel into modern times, including film spin-offs. 'Mightier than the Sword': How 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' changed the course of American history 2011-06-15T19:38:03Z Starting in the early 19th century, minstrel shows — which trafficked in stereotypes that demeaned and lampooned African Americans — were an enormously popular form of American entertainment. Review | Daring idea, but flawed e xecution, in ‘Day of Absence’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “I think the baggage is not just the minstrel show, but the story itself,” Wormley says. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z In "Neighbors," for example, a mixed-race, upwardly mobile family gets a whole new set of problems when the Crows, who wear blackface and enact the cartoonish stereotypes of minstrel shows, move in next door. Spotlight shines brighter on 'Appropriate' playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The bluntness of institutionalized identity politics leaves him “feeling like a fraud, or worse—a minstrel show.” The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z City officials performed in blackface in minstrel shows, and black children were allowed in the local pool only on Wednesdays. Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Redd’s father took him to see traveling minstrel shows when he was a boy, and he was particularly struck by the one-legged tap dancer Peg Leg Bates moving to the rhythm of a trap drummer. Redd Holt, Drummer on Instrumentals That Became Pop Hits, Dies at 91 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Phetogo uses that substance to invoke blackface, once used in American and European minstrel shows but also in Ghana’s “concert party” performances. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Before becoming an opera house regular, Whitman was a fan of lighter fare, in particular the Hutchinson Family Singers and minstrel shows. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Spike Lee himself has often been condemned for portraying African-Americans in a negative light, although his criticism of Perry seems more in line with Lee's own movie from 2000 about modern-day minstrel shows, "Bamboozled." Tyler Perry vs. Spike Lee: Let's bring the Jews into this! 2011-04-20T20:06:00Z One family is mixed marriage, and the next door neighbors are African-American members of a minstrel show in black face. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Squirming in the Seats 2011-04-11T12:00:11Z They were originally posted around Manhattan to advertise Shakespeare plays, minstrel shows, new American plays and early musicals. 19th-Century Playbills to Be Restored and Digitized 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Q. Do you deny starring in your fraternity’s racially insensitive minstrel show? Style Invitational Week 1170: Derby or not Derby — our famous ‘foal’ contest 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z He had deep experience in the sanctified church and in the chitlin’ circuit of African-American clubs and theaters, along with drag shows, strip joints and, even in the 20th century, minstrel shows. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z The musical frames the story as a minstrel show - that deeply racist storytelling device performed by whites in blackface - and then immediately subverts it by having an all-black cast. 2 very daring musicals lead the Tony Awards race 2011-05-04T01:01:04Z Although often addressed as a uniquely American performance tradition and problem, blackface performances were exported globally both through blackface performances of Shakespeare's Othello and through blackface minstrel shows. In a year of Black Lives Matter protests, Dutch wrestle (again) with the tradition of Black Pete 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z “The minstrel shows played in places where there weren’t a lot of African Americans, and that’s what people thought they were. That has followed us for years.” Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “This kind of black imitation is very reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows,” the singer-songwriter Moses Sumney wrote in a letter to the festival, explaining his decision to withdraw from it. Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z And there’s the other rub: “The Scottsboro Boys” is framed as a minstrel show. Two noted and nomadic musicals destined for D.C.? And yet, I bet that even today, most Black Americans have witnessed or participated in a minstrel show of some sort — a performance of Blackness that simplifies and debases it. Review: In ‘Tambo & Bones,’ a Minstrel’s Guide to Making Money 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Or is that more minstrel show stuff -- an example of the cast playing up the stereotype because the audience demands it? "Jersey Shore" recap: 4x1 2011-08-05T12:30:00Z Students attended mock slave auctions and blackface minstrel shows. How one pocket of Utah is confronting the word ‘Dixie’ and all of its associations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z When the show was announced last summer, a sick side of me rooted for the delicious worst: for years I’ve been writing about such a minstrel show, working on a novel about Iranian-American reality TV. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z “Mislaid” feels like a subversive minstrel show sprung from an encyclopedic mind drunk on the Mad Hatter’s tea. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Live entertainment typically comprised touring minstrel shows with performers in blackface, as well as forgettable light operas with names such as “The Black Hussar” and “Paradise Flats.” For one wild era, walking was the nation’s No. 1 spectator sport 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The instrument would remain the province of slaves until the Civil War, when it was taken up by white musicians in the rural South, who discovered the banjo through black musicians and via minstrel shows. | Westchester: The New York Banjo Summit Is at Tarrytown Music Hall This Week 2013-01-12T02:55:29Z Blackface is an offensive practice, reminiscent of the minstrel shows of the 19th and early 20th centuries that relied on singing, dancing caricatures of black people, frequently portrayed by white people in blackface. Seattle Opera’s ‘Aida’ spurs discussion of ways black people are misrepresented — or not represented — in opera 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “The minstrel show elements are, I like to think, part of the entertainment, but in a way that makes you think about how we tell stories, tell our history as Americans,” Mr. Kander said. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z The song, initially known as One Horse Open Sleigh, was first performed in blackface in a minstrel show in Boston in September 1857, she discovered. Is Jingle Bells racist? Despite backlash from the right, it's not black and white 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, US Arab comic Dean Obeidallah compared Baron Cohen's portrayal to blackface portrayals of African Americans by white actors, labelling The Dictator "a modern-day minstrel show". Sacha Baron Cohen criticised over 'negative stereotypes' of Arabs 2012-05-17T11:19:56Z In this case, it is to a minstrel show and dance, held for Metropolitan Museum of Art employees on Oct. Review: In Robin Coste Lewis’s ‘Voyage of the Sable Venus,’ Poems on Race 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Foster wrote "My Old Kentucky Home" for overtly racist blackface minstrel shows, where performers included it in demeaning enactments of racial difference from a white supremacist perspective. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z And both productions use a Brechtian framework of popular bygone theater forms: vaudeville for “Chicago” and the minstrel show for “Scottsboro Boys.” Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z Herriman’s early cartoons draw on the stereotypes of the time; he was even in a minstrel show himself once. What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z What I saw Saturday night was dangerously close to a minstrel show and not the fault of these earnest young actors.” ArtsBeat Blog: Casting Director Says She Didn't Pick Actors to Play Latino Roles 2011-12-05T21:53:14Z Blackface minstrel shows begin their ascent in popular culture. 200 years of authenticity (or lack thereof) in casting 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The now-closed musical frames the 1930s-era story of nine black teenagers wrongfully put on death row as an inverted minstrel show. At the Tonys, 'Book of Mormon' favored to win big 2011-06-12T12:04:11Z Framing the story as a minstrel show that, while subversively comic, means derogatory language and blackface are part of the action. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Despite the evocation of blackface and minstrel shows, Groening denies that the intention was racist. Goodbye Apu – here’s what you meant to us 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z “Out of the minstrel show came all the stereotypes: Black men are dangerous, they love watermelon, they’re crazy, outlandish, obnoxious characters,” Wormley says. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Brown's earlier work "Mr. Tol E. Rance" was an ambitious examination of the stereotypes of black entertainers and comedians, including performers in minstrel shows and popular sitcoms. 'Black Girl: Linguistic Play' explores history and culture through double Dutch and other games 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z They didn't want this opera to be turned into a minstrel show or white washed for the comfort of whites. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Yes, it's an interesting artifact of American entertainment, but its time - like vaudeville and minstrel shows - has come and gone. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In antebellum America, the minstrel show was one of the most popular forms of musical entertainment. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z They were, after all, a callback to the minstrel shows of the 1800s — comedy skits by singing, dancing white men who had painted their faces with burnt cork. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z And all told by resurrecting one of theater’s most controversial storytelling devices, the minstrel show. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z He left home and began performing with traveling medicine and minstrel shows, part of a 19th-century tradition that was dying out. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Another Facebook group, Artists Against The Mikado, was “dedicated to the controversial idea that minstrel shows where white people dress up as fake Japanese is a little out of date.” Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z He is best known for plays that use “ ‘blackness’ as a material,” as he puts it, including the incendiary “Neighbors,” in which a black family wears the blackface makeup of minstrel shows. Theater Review: In ‘Appropriate,’ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Subverts Tradition 2014-03-17T02:00:16Z “It is a minstrel show for women,” she told him. ‘Real Housewives’ Invited Me In. How Could I Say No? 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z In return, the Americans offer their own startling entertainment – a minstrel show performed by members of the crew in blackface. British Museum snaps up 50ft Japanese scroll 2013-04-02T14:38:48Z The musical, with David Thompson supplying the book and Susan Stroman directing and choreographing, takes the form of a minstrel show, with some black actors also portraying white and female characters. New Musicals That Strike a Somber Chord 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z In a response video posted to YouTube, Akilah Hughes called Jones’ character “a minstrel show… the loud, screaming thing in the room.” The new “Ghostbusters” and race: Why it matters that Leslie Jones isn’t playing one of the scientists 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a display about minstrel shows sits about eight feet from a display on lynching. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Abdurraqib reflects on Black performance in America through essays on television, music, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. New in Paperback: ‘A Little Devil in America’ and ‘My Friend Anna’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z It's a harrowing historical chapter, reconfigured in the form of a subverted, old-time minstrel show on a simple set. Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z Blackface performances date back to minstrel shows of the 1800s, in which performers darkened their faces to create bigoted caricatures of Black people. Southern Baptists expel Oklahoma church after pastor defends his blackface and Native caricatures 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z But Splash Mountain is still a ride in which the most popular song, “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” has connections to minstrel shows. Splash Mountain closing day: Why Disneyland's long goodbye is long overdue 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The rebirth extends the circus’ long run that dates back to a time before automobiles, airplanes or movies, when Ulysses S. Grant was president and minstrel shows were popular entertainment. Reborn Ringling Bros. circus to leap on tour — minus animals 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes they danced outside theaters where minstrel shows were performed. Perspective | For a brief time before his fame, ‘Bojangles’ Robinson danced in D.C. 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z These non-Black people speak it as a form of entertainment, “giving them a Black caricature in a way, kind of like a minstrel show,” Monroe said. Black English is being misidentified as Gen Z lingo, speakers say 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The practice has a long, complicated history in theater, stretching from the medieval period to Shakespeare to American minstrel shows. American soprano withdraws from Italian festival that used blackface 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z In rebellion against their playwright, Tambo and Bones drag the person responsible for placing them in this nutty minstrel show onto the stage and attack him. Review: The high-octane 'Tambo & Bones' scrutinizes the inescapable legacy of minstrelsy 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In borrowing the novel’s celebrity while also changing the story’s terms, Foster would give his minstrel show’s viewers an unsavable Tom, who in the song dies wishing he could return to the plantation. Review | The complicated story behind the Kentucky Derby’s opening song 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z According to Fields, the conflict between her and Staten festered after she questioned choreography evoking a minstrel show, which was not explicitly mentioned in the script. An allegation and a cancellation: How Arena Stage’s big show fell apart 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z His first taste of professional experience came with a barnstorming team that traveled with a carnival and minstrel show. Chet Brewer's best delivery was helping Black players reach the major leagues 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z A craze for blackface minstrel shows reflected other values of northern white workers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z An upstate New York public school chose not to include "Jingle Bells" in its repertoire of Christmas songs after linking the tune’s origins to 19th century minstrel shows, according to a local report. New York school cites 19th century reason for banning 'Jingle Bells' over Christmas 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z The article, written by Boston University professor Kyna Hamill, documents an 1857 performance of “Jingle Bells” at a minstrel show “in which white actors performed in blackface,” the online report noted. No bells will jingle for primary students in Rochester suburb in ‘diversity’ push 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Nonfiction: “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance,” by Hanif Abdurraqib, makes powerful observations about race through music, television, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. The Latest Covid Surge 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z That included outcry from members of the Black community who feared it would strike viewers as a minstrel show and feuds between some of the regular dancers on the program. Perspective | ‘Teenarama’ was a dance show for D.C.’s Black teens. Now it’s a musical. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z By the mid-1830s, minstrel shows, which featured white men with blackened faces playing stereotyped black characters, had become one of the most popular forms of northern urban entertainment, especially for white male workers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z She wrote that the first performance of "Jingle Bells" in public may have been in Boston in 1857 during a minstrel show, where White performers wore blackface. New York school cites 19th century reason for banning 'Jingle Bells' over Christmas 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z According to the report, Mr. Tappon and others cited a 2017 article in the academic journal “Theatre Survey” which places the origin of “Jingle Bells” in minstrel shows either in Medford, Massachusetts, or Savannah, Georgia. No bells will jingle for primary students in Rochester suburb in ‘diversity’ push 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Payment imagined a stadium full of fans implored to act as if performing a minstrel show. The ‘tomahawk chop’ lives on in Atlanta. Now it has the World Series spotlight. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The title references a processional dance that originated on Southern plantations during the slavery era and would later be parodied by white performers in minstrel shows. Artist Alison Saar on why she gives power to the Black female body 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The typical minstrel show featured clownish plantation characters such as Bones and Tambo, whose songs and jokes made fun of Mr. Interlocutor, a pompous straight man. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” was written in 1903 and has a history of performances in minstrel shows with musicians often in blackface. Texas NAACP files federal complaint over “The Eyes of Texas” 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z White students at the university, which remained segregated until 1956, regularly performed the anthem at blackface minstrel shows that continued until the mid-1960s. University of Texas Faces New Outcry Over Old Song With Minstrel Roots 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z At auditions, it soon felt as if I was doing a version of a minstrel show — and for good reason. Opinion | Hank Azaria apologized for playing Apu on ‘The Simpsons.’ I accept. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z In March, Texas released a report on “The Eyes of Texas,” finding that the song’s first public performances did occur in a minstrel show with performers likely wearing blackface. Texas to require Longhorn Band to play ‘The Eyes of Texas’ 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Depicting a proslavery version of plantation life, minstrel shows celebrated the ideology of President Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Party and played a conspicuous part in its campaign events. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The earliest form of burlesque in the city goes back at least to September 1868, when Lydia Thompson & the British Blondes melded aspects of “leg shows” and minstrel shows for a bustling audience. What Is Life Without Burlesque? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z I was raised of course to imagine the minstrel show as only shameful. Hanif Abdurraqib: ‘I was fascinated by who got to define shame’ 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z "Dumbo," made in 1941, features a group of crows who "pay homage to racist minstrel shows, where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved Africans." Disney+ removes access to classics like 'Dumbo,' 'Peter Pan' for kids under 7 over 'racist' stereotypes 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z In college, he wrote a minstrel show and performed it in blackface. Some Dr. Seuss books with racist imagery will go out of print 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Like western bragging and theater riots, the minstrel show appealed to American workers who cherished liberty and equality but worried about preserving them in a topsy-turvy world. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” was routinely performed by musicians in blackface at minstrel shows. UT president calls emails defending school song ‘extremist’ 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” was routinely performed by musicians in blackface at minstrel shows. UT president calls emails defending school song ‘extremist’ 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z All because they refused to sing a song that was historically performed at minstrel shows that featured performers in blackface and was said to be inspired by a quote by Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Longhorns supporters threaten university, players over 'Eyes of Texas' controversy 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Decades ago, students participated in mock slave auctions and blackface minstrel shows. Students protest as Utah lawmakers resist changing ‘Dixie’ 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The name itself was taken from a character from minstrel shows in the 1800s that mocked African-Americans. Aunt Jemima to rebrand as Pearl Milling Company this summer 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “We are entering a time where all of these will be seen like minstrel shows,” she said, “like horrible, outdated racist things, and people will be very confused as to why they lasted so long.” For Opponents of Native American Nicknames, 2020 Has Brought Hope 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z He was an old man with years of sorrow behind him, a homeless street performer who had once been a dancer “at minstrel shows and county fairs throughout the South.” Jerry Jeff Walker, Texas troubadour who wrote ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ dies at 78 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The song was routinely performed by musicians in blackface at minstrel shows. Conflict raging over ‘The Eyes of Texas’ school song 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The reference to minstrel shows – in which people wore black-face to imitate African Americans in song and dance numbers and variety acts – provided her statement with an uncomfortable tone. 'Modern-day minstrel show' insult of RNC speakers draws harsh reaction to MSNBC guest host 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z She said Spike Lee was as an important influence, in particular his “Bamboozled,” a 2000 satire about a modern televised minstrel show. Pledging to Tell More Inclusive Stories, MGM Remakes Orion Pictures 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Harris’ examination of American racism past, present and future unfolds while two characters are trapped in a minstrel show. Center Theatre Group, looking to a post-pandemic future, picks a Dave Harris play 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” has long been criticized for its connection to minstrel shows with characters in blackface in the early 1900s. Texas keeps ‘The Eyes of Texas’ despite athlete demands 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Though the lyrics do not seem inherently racist — they mean to poke fun at a past school president — the song was originally performed by white students in blackface as part of a campus minstrel show. What's in a nickname, mascot or sports tradition? Sometimes tinges of racism 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Blackface as entertainment emerged from 19th-century minstrel shows that featured white actors in dark makeup, playing characters who embodied stereotypical depictions of African Americans. Analysis | Blackface has long been an issue in comedy. Look no further than ‘Saturday Night Live’ for proof. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The character is an African American woman who was originally dressed as a minstrel show performer. Uncle Ben's rice firm to scrap brand image of black farmer 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z For over 130 years, the brand's logo has featured a black woman named after a character from minstrel shows in the 1800s that mocked African-Americans. Quaker Oats acknowledges 'racial stereotype' 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Early Aunt Jemima logos featured various crude renderings of a dark-skinned woman wearing a headscarf, the design clearly influenced by minstrel shows, where white-skinned actors would portray stereotyped black people. Aunt Jemima to change name and logo due to racial stereotyping 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The logo of the brand features an African American woman named after a character from minstrel shows from the 19th century. PepsiCo's Aunt Jemima brand to change name, logo: NBC News 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z They also said the school should stop using “The Eyes of Texas,” which has long been criticized for its connection to minstrel shows with characters in blackface in the early 1900s. Texas president to meet with students on athletes’ demands 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Its first performance was around 1903, by a university quartet at a minstrel show at the Hancock Opera House in Austin, the professor said. Texas Football Players Call on University to Drop a Song Steeped in Racist History 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Organizer Rashelle Monet wrote in the petition that “Sambo” was commonly used as “an archetypal degrading character in literature and minstrel shows.” Santa Barbara restaurant drops name many considered racist 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z However, he walked back his remarks on Wednesday, amending his argument to say his real gripe with the pop star is her behavior, calling the performer a “minstrel show.” Lizzo bashes author’s claim that she’s only popular due to 'obesity epidemic': 'Keep my name out ya mouth' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z As an example, she mentioned seeing minstrel shows at the theater as a girl in Detroit. Ellen Burstyn talks women in film, Pacino interview, #MeToo 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z When minstrel shows were the thing — white men in blackface mimicking African dance moves — Barnum got into the business. Review | P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to America 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The university acknowledges on its website that the song was “first sung at a minstrel show and taken indirectly from a Robert E. Lee quote, contextual elements that many people find offensive.” Texas Football Players Call on University to Drop a Song Steeped in Racist History 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z In 19th century U.S., performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice popularized minstrel shows by wearing blackface and adopting what he thought was African American vernacular. AP Explains: Brownface part of racist face makeup history 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The scandal is similar to cases in the United States of politicians or other public figures donning blackface, a practice that dates back to 19th century minstrel shows that caricatured slaves. Factbox: Canada's Trudeau in brownface scandal that has echoes in U.S. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In the past, blackface was used in minstrel shows, which demeaned members of the African-American community by playing on racist stereotypes. Justin Trudeau apologizes for 2001 photo showing him in brownface: "I should have known better" 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “I started listening and watching, especially the stuff he took from minstrel shows,” he said. The Survival of Iggy Pop 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Even as Barnum was exhibiting his Tom Thumb, another dwarf called Tom Thumb was making the rounds; and, in the mid-nineteenth century, minstrel shows were a popular form of entertainment. What P. T. Barnum Understood About America 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Black writers and artists from the Harlem Renaissance voiced their concerns about the distortion of African cultures in some modernist artworks, and wrote at length about the demeaning caricatures of black identity in minstrel shows. Why we need to pause before claiming cultural appropriation | Ash Sarkar 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z He remembered a mayor who did a summer minstrel show wearing striped pants, a plaid blazer and blackface. The keeper of the secret 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z And she points out that the patterns established in 19th-century minstrel shows continue today, even without the blackface. Perspective | Figuring out what’s behind the use of blackface could depend on who you ask 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z It became claimed by white musicians as their own, and was played often in blackface minstrel shows in the mid 19th-century US. Rhiannon Giddens: ‘I see this album as part of a movement to reclaim black female history’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Northam denied appearing in the photo but admitted to dressing that year in blackface, which traces its history to 19th-century minstrel shows that mocked African-Americans and is seen as offensive by many Americans. Virginia Republicans want Democrat's sex assault accusers to testify 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Blackface traces its history to 19th-century minstrel shows that mocked African-Americans, and is seen as offensive by many Americans - though its use continued in U.S. popular culture through to the early 21st century. Virginia political crisis in stalemate after impeachment threat 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z I was born in 1940 in Hannibal, Mo. In the 1940s and early 1950s, minstrel shows, including blackface, were common. Opinion | Apologies for blackface and a chance to change 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z She added that minstrel shows and blackface performances both reinforced and popularized the “stereotype of the dimwitted slave who was happy to be in the South.” Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z For many people of color, every new photo of someone in blackface is a fresh slap, as is casual public debate about blackface and minstrel shows. Northam blackface scandal forces Virginians to talk about what redemption for racism should look like 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Will yet more photos emerge of rowdy blackface frat parties and politicians’ youthful participation in amateur minstrel shows? Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z He said he learned about the history of minstrel shows, where white people mocked black people “and exaggerated their characteristics and mannerisms.” Va. Gov. Ralph Northam says he wants to focus rest of his term on racial equity 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Yearbook pages from another fraternity in the 1960s include references to minstrel shows as well as photos of men in blackface. Universities in Maryland reckon with past yearbook photos 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z He found that blackface had become much rarer by the 1960s, and when it did show up, it was in photographs of private fraternity parties rather than at campuswide public events like minstrel shows. Beyond College Campuses and Public Scandals, a Racist Tradition Lingers 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Twenty years after demonstrators marched against segregation, Northam should have known there’s nothing innocent about mimicking minstrel show entertainers who artificially darkened their skin to depict stereotypical images of black life. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And there is no evidence that any of these politicians spoke out against amateur blackface minstrel shows within their organizations. Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The blackface practice dates back to 19th century minstrel shows that caricatured slaves. Factbox: Virginia governor latest to feel consequences of blackface... 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The origins of blackface date back to 19th-century minstrel shows, when white actors covered themselves in black grease paint to caricature slaves. Virginia lawmakers meet; governor battles fallout from racist photo 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The origins of blackface date to minstrel shows in the 19th century, when white actors covered themselves in black greasepaint to portray African Americans in a cartoonish, dehumanizing way. Gov. Ralph Northam admits he was in 1984 yearbook photo showing figures in blackface, KKK hood 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z A 1982 profile of Panhandle Sheriff Rufe Jordan by Texas Monthly Reporter fondly recalled when he would put on black face to sing Irish songs in the Pampa Lions Club minstrel show. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z As late as 1974, the annual Charlottesville Lions Club minstrel show was still so popular, it was recommended in travel guidebooks. Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The origins of blackface date to minstrel shows from the 19th century, when white actors covered themselves in black grease paint to portray African Americans in a cartoonish, dehumanizing way. Virginia governor's medical school yearbook page shows men in blackface and a KKK robe 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The photographs evoked an ugly history of white people blackening their faces to mock African-Americans in minstrel shows and movies. Florida Secretary of State Resigns After Blackface Photos Surface 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The minstrel shows put forth racist notions of African Americans as primitive, childish and inferior. Gov. Ralph Northam admits he was in 1984 yearbook photo showing figures in blackface, KKK hood 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Blackface was used in minstrel shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring white performers portraying African-Americans, often in a degrading manner, and is considered to be racist and offensive. Florida's secretary of state resigns after blackface photo surfaces 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z She also hosted a segment featuring two black panelists, Roland Martin and Amy Holmes, who explained the history of blackface, a demeaning practice with a history going back to 19th-century minstrel shows. It’s Final: Megyn Kelly and NBC Part Ways. And She Will Be Paid in Full. 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z The minstrel shows put forth racist notions of African Americans as primitive and inferior. Virginia governor's medical school yearbook page shows men in blackface and a KKK robe 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Critics accused her of ignoring the ugly history of minstrel shows and movies in which whites applied blackface to mock blacks. NBC News, Megyn Kelly reach separation agreement 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Dutch label Viktor & Rolf covered white models in black body and face paint, creating a look that called to mind a high-fashion minstrel show. Perspective | Seriously, Prada, what were you thinking?: Why the fashion industry keeps bumbling into racist imagery 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Her peer-reviewed paper found that the song was originally performed in blackface in a minstrel show as One Horse Open Sleigh in Boston in September 1857. Should we stop listening to these Christmas songs? 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z She sees it as part of a racist tradition dating back to the minstrel shows of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. 'The blackface scandal that rocked my campus' 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z To compensate, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, a teacher who would later become the president of Grambling, took students out to perform minstrel shows for wealthy white people in neighboring towns. A College Degree, More than Fifteen Years in the Making 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In its worst bits, Kondabolu’s documentary compares Apu to a blackface minstrel show, as if there was no difference between the experience of black Americans and that of South Asian immigrants then or now. Don't get rid of Apu. He's a hero to many of us | Bhaskar Sunkara 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Yesterday, Kelly's guests Martin and Holmes made solid — and apparently necessary — points about America's history of blackface, minstrel shows and race. It’s time for NBC to fire Megyn Kelly 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “What I saw was a minstrel show today — him in front of all these white people — mostly white people — embarrassing himself,” Mr. Lemon said. Don Lemon mocks Kanye West for Donald Trump ‘minstrel show’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Blackface minstrel shows were, she says, a way of cementing a culture of white supremacy and racial hierarchy. 'The blackface scandal that rocked my campus' 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The "angry black woman" trope has its roots in 19th Century America, when minstrel shows, which involved comic skits and variety acts, mocking African Americans became popular. Serena Williams and 'angry black women' 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “It was written as what they called a walk-around tune … for a minstrel show. It was like a tune between acts,” said Horton. Away, away: Alabama high school won’t play ‘Dixie’ any more 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The first is a minstrel show in which the five black actors play the roles they said they were used to getting — drug addict, criminal — with a kind of Brechtian awkwardness. Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z “Dixie” celebrates life in the old South and originated in blackface minstrel shows. Official: Playing ‘Dixie’ during fireworks show an oversight 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z At one point, the brave ragtag Staten Islanders are being systematically hunted by heavily armed white gunmen wearing KKK hoods or Nazi coats and masks that look like blackface and minstrel shows. Film Review: ‘The First Purge’ is depressingly prescient 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z “Haul the Woodpile Down,” he realized, was a sonic time capsule, a musical missing link from the minstrel shows that dominated the 1800s before fading near the turn of the century. This mysterious recording was the missing musical link to an era when racism was the tune 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Sorry, those little white gloves have their root in minstrel shows, intensely racist vaudeville acts whose repercussions are still seen in today’s media. Funny memes often come from dark places — remember that before you make your own 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z China’s 55 officially designated minorities are today still depicted in the state’s propaganda in terms remarkably like black people in the minstrel shows that were once popular in the West. China portrays racism as a Western problem 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z But others defended the school, saying that the black-painted faces don’t carry the sort of racist implication they would in the United States, where blackface was a staple of racist minstrel shows. Use of blackface in Brazil Carnival parade sparks debate 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Talking to Japanese media, he said the first minstrel shows were brought to the country from the US in the 19th Century. Controversy over Japan blackface comedy 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Some would say black reaction gifs on white Twitter feeds are no better than the minstrel shows of yore; others might say they’re a celebration of African American culture, or at the very least neutral. Opinion | What white people missed about FaceApp’s ‘blackface’ filters 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The fraternal organization, Improved Order of Red Men, would put on a minstrel show each year. New group starts conversation on race in New Hampshire 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The seventh, the site of the blackface minstrel shows. Walking Jesus’ walk, with a modern twist this Easter season 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Excluded from the exhibit are minstrel shows and vaudeville performances done in blackface. ‘Art of American Dance’ at Crystal Bridges Museum 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z I was 17 when the last of the touring blackface minstrel shows finally disappeared, having clung on for a decade performing in fading ballrooms on the decaying piers of Britain’s seaside towns. The reality of being black in today’s Britain | David Olusoga 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Early on, a “hip-hop chapel,” meant to celebrate black styles of worship, read to her more like a minstrel show, an offensive attempt to “check off the diversity box.” The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In one scene, blacks, dressed as if extras in a minstrel show, drink whiskey, sit barefoot and gouge on meat as they take their places in South Carolina’s new legislature. A new 'Birth of a Nation' dredges up the complicated, ugly legacy of the groundbreaking 1915 film 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He cannot help seeing a touch of minstrel show in his act. A ‘Good Refugee,’ His Song Suffused With Sorrow, Hopes to Touch Germany’s Heart 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z There was a time when white folks painted their faces black and staged “minstrel shows” lampooning African Americans as lazy, dim-witted buffoons who liked to sing. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z During the era of slavery, white men performing in minstrel shows would apply a layer of black grease onto their faces, paint exaggerated red lips and dance to ridicule the very act of being black. Political correctness is more than an excuse for phoney martyrs to express old prejudices | Yassir Morsi 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The advent of the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s caused some to brand the Globetrotters as minstrel show stereotypes, with much of the criticism falling on Lemon. Meadowlark Lemon, star of 'Harlem Globetrotters,' dies at 83: report 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z In many Decatur residents’ lifetimes, Ku Klux Klan cross burnings were not unusual, and it was not so long ago that minstrel shows performed by whites pretending to be black were common. Alabama editorial roundup 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Blackface was often used in minstrel shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring white performers portraying African-Americans, often in a degrading manner. Arizona university asks football fans to shun blackface 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z For the past several years, however, such use of Native American imagery has fallen out of favor, much like making fun of African Americans through minstrel shows. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The Washington Post called it “a subversive minstrel show sprung from an encyclopedic mind drunk on the Mad Hatter’s tea”. Meet Nell Zink. Her story is as good as her novels... | Hermione Hoby 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z The song, originally penned in 1859 for a minstrel show and later popularized as the Confederate anthem during the Civil War, longingly recalls the antebellum South. Prosecutor's use of 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z This rehearsal for the minstrel show tests the son’s patience. Review: New feast of stories in Theroux collection 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It noted social media reaction that mentioned "blackface," which was common in old American minstrel shows featuring white performers as stereotyped black characters. South African students investigated over costumes 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Throughout the early 20th Century, watermelon was often used in minstrel shows that caricatured black people. School Apologizes for Black History Month Menu 2014-02-07T15:35:30Z The Palace opened in 1926 hosting silent films, vaudeville and minstrel shows. In Switch to Digital, Small Theaters in Adirondacks Face Choice: Pay or Perish 2013-12-26T01:53:34Z He also joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, for which he wrote a parody of a minstrel show, “A Minstrel Show, or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel.” Saul Landau, Maker of Films With Leftist Edge, Dies at 77 2013-09-12T02:52:19Z Blackface was often used in minstrel shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring white performers portraying African Americans, often in a degrading manner. New York assemblyman apologizes for blackface party costume 2013-02-26T06:28:55Z Negative stereotypes abounded in caricatures and minstrel shows. City Room: Carla L. Peterson on Black Life in 19th-Century New York 2012-02-17T16:51:48Z I don't think he was ever anything more than an amateur, but he was perpetually dancing jigs, and singing comic songs, and went crazy over a minstrel show. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z We’ve been arrested, and released, and attacked, and pommeled, and now we strike some kind of a minstrel show. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z It felt like a modern day minstrel show. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Diminishing The 'Hat'? About That Casting Controversy 2011-12-09T21:03:59Z I was simply fascinated by it as a little girl and used to go to all the minstrel shows, and sit and watch the men play. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z One might be Beethoven's loveliest symphony, the other but a minstrel show. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Now, honey, why not give a good, old-fashioned chicken supper in the church hall, with perhaps a minstrel show afterward? The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z "That joke's good enough for a minstrel show," Clover declared. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z The Book of Mormon is a minstrel show for our present age with Mormons as the joke. John Mark Reynolds: Amos and Andy and The Book of Mormon 2011-06-15T21:20:00Z A sense of humor includes, besides the ability to comprehend a joke in a minstrel show, a saving appreciation of the ridiculous in one's self as well as in humanity at large. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z On the evening of October 24th, our boys arranged one of their characteristic performances—a minstrel show. History of the Dewitt guard, company A, 50th regiment National guard, state of New York 2011-05-25T02:00:23.703Z Now if you'd only gotten up a nice old-fashioned chicken supper, and a minstrel show——" "Ambrose! The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z Sometimes I am inclined to think that life is a farce played with an earthly setting for the delectation of the angels, as we serve minstrel shows and burlesques. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Original sin was enough for that, but minstrel shows did give racism an artistic and comedic whitewash. John Mark Reynolds: Amos and Andy and The Book of Mormon 2011-06-15T21:20:00Z It was not exactly a minstrel show, but it approached the minstrel territory. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z "O, Jack!" cried the pretty girl, "I'm so glad to see you just now, for I do want to go into the minstrel show so bad!" Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z Around her was the buzz of low speech, the wailing of tired and hungry babies and the clamor of attendants selling tickets for the minstrel show to follow. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z And so Americans both Southern and Northern flocked to minstrel shows and snapped up happy-slave stories by writers like Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris. The Way We Weren't 2011-04-07T09:45:00Z At first the newspapers played it more or less as a comic sketch in a minstrel show: a Yankee shyster outwits a drawling Southern aristocrat. Magazine Preview: How Slavery Really Ended in America 2011-04-01T17:48:58Z White minstrel shows then changed him into a lackey often played by whites in blackface, Miller said. 'Uncle Tom' remark exposes pain in black community 2011-03-18T20:57:17Z A quartette of college students blacked up and gave a minstrel show. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z He had her out here at the school for the minstrel show the other night. Betty Lee, Sophomore 2010-12-24T03:00:29.270Z "Oh, yes; when I was a boy I played the bones in a minstrel show." The Bachelors A Novel There was to be a minstrel show followed by a series of tableaux in the gymnasium the night before the beginning of Christmas Recess. The Crimson Sweater One of these was a minstrel show, the first ever seen in Berks. Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 While others, again, are gotten up as if for a minstrel show for their marriage–painted black, for the time being!” laughed her husband, the tall Scout Officer. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl At one end, and acting as interlocutor for this impromptu minstrel show, - 50 -presides one of the best fellows in the world. The Real Latin Quarter There’s a barroom, and a gambling layout, and velvet carpets and chairs, mirrors, a minstrel show, and all the fixings. Gold "That's all right; folks like 'em old at a minstrel show," answered Chub. The Crimson Sweater The forming of El Hassan's basic government is beginning to take on aspects of a minstrel show. Border, Breed Nor Birth How musical genius was discovered in abundance and an orchestra formed as well as a monthly minstrel show. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country One would as soon expect a statue to drill a minstrel show. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Oh, Susannah! or rather a modification of the original made to fit the occasion, first sung in some minstrel show, ran like fire in the tinder of men’s excited hopes. Gold In rummaging through his trunk Daily had come across a can of burnt cork, that he had used in a minstrel show at St. James, L. I., the previous summer. Continuous Vaudeville The big brass-band, an all-important adjunct of the minstrel show, fascinated him. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man “Just now you look like the lead for a minstrel show.” The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery "Rusty, I remember that once when Meadow Green got too small for you, years ago, you started out with a minstrel show—'The Darktown Merrymakers,' they called it." The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Luckily it was not hot, though after the splashing was over Ted looked as if he had colored himself to take part in a minstrel show. The Curlytops and Their Playmates or Jolly Times Through the Holidays With the coming of the holiday the boys had been rehearsing an old-fashioned minstrel show, with boxing and wrestling matches as side attractions. The Greater Love The fun-loving Prince of Wales, afterward King Edward VII., wanted to see an American minstrel show. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man For that amount I can go to a good minstrel show and sit in a box. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare One evening in the spring, the four boys were taken to see a minstrel show in the city. Ten Boys from History It was worse than a minstrel show; it was profoundly corrupt. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Enlisted men's entertainments by the "Y" and their own efforts to battle ennui with minstrel show and burlesque and dances have already been mentioned. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 The less esthetic "variety" troupes, minstrel shows, and circuses enjoyed a much higher credit. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man "Oh, it is more fun than a minstrel show!" Frank Merriwell's Cruise And the next night the Colonel took all of us to a minstrel show where they sang "Angel Gabriel." Mitch Miller At Poughkeepsie school children get up parties, amateur vaudeville, minstrel shows, basket picnics, to obtain food and clothing for children in distress. Civics and Health Late in March "I" Company three times repeated its grand minstrel show. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 At last the fortunes of one member were definitely committed to the theater, and although it was a negro minstrel show, it meant a definite connection with public entertainment. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man It was a general one, extending all along the line, for Rob at the tail and Ranald at the head shouted jokes and questions back and forth like end-men at a minstrel show. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor Across the street from the flats stood the building which housed the corner drug store and "Neighborhood Hall," used according to season for high-school dances, minstrel shows, and fraternal meetings. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Philip J. Cusick, of Parsons, Penna., the battery's favorite pianist, was selected to make a tour with the regimental minstrel show that was put on to tour the circuit of A.�E.�F. playhouses. The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces He was only with an amateur minstrel show eight days. Watch Yourself Go By I heard Billy Rice sing it in the negro minstrel show, and I brought it home and sang it—with great spirit—for the elevation of the household. Chapters from My Autobiography You look like the end man in a minstrel show. Tom Slade at Temple Camp "You look just like candidates for a minstrel show," gasped Mollie, while the boys stood regarding her reproachfully. The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained Playing minstrel shows in it yet, I suppose. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad The curtain went up, or rather was pulled aside, on Alfred's first minstrel show. Watch Yourself Go By I'm not a marquis, nor the end man at a minstrel show. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Bring any old clothes for costumes; tambourines and bones for minstrel show, grease paint, and burnt cork—in fact, anything that you think will add to the fun of the camp. Camping For Boys He had joined a minstrel show somewhere and had become an "end-man." Twelve Men They were very fond of performing and singing at amateur minstrel shows and developed a certain comic vein they thought original, though it reminded me of professional corner-men. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man The professor kept up his talk, as affected at times as the hand-cuff king's stage announcements or those of the middleman in a minstrel show. Watch Yourself Go By If American troops are stationed near a town, there will be one or two minstrel shows each year. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Some nights there will be a minstrel show, other nights a camp fire, or mock trial, an illustrated talk, or "village school entertainment," or a play, or a musical evening or "vo-de-ville." Camping For Boys "How well the coach keeps track of minstrel shows!" called another gibing voice. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond If various persons dislike the publicity of such a procedure, all the "smiles" may be collected and presented by two or three clever persons in the form of a minstrel show. Entertaining Made Easy He did not deny that he and Jake had conversed many times regarding a minstrel show; Jake seemed greatly interested in it. Watch Yourself Go By Usually take about eight and ten in our comp'ny, boys and gals—and we give em a real hot minstrel show. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Have you ever taken part in minstrel show, dramatics, or any kind of entertainment; if so, what? Camping For Boys Ironically, the first professional entertainers to perform in minstrel shows were whites who were imitating plantation slave productions. The Black Experience in America The main attraction of the evening, however, was the minstrel show. Entertaining Made Easy You have to lie more here in a day than I did all the time I was with a minstrel show. Watch Yourself Go By It had a sort of stage at one end where from time to time wandering players gave poor performances of poor plays or a minstrel show or a low vaudeville. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Manual training, instruction in woodcraft, field and track athletics, boating, life-saving drills, rehearsal for minstrel shows or entertainments, photography, tennis, baseball, are some of the many activities to be engaged in during this period. Camping For Boys There were pictures taken on board ship, showing frolics, and ball games, and minstrel shows and glee clubs, and the men at mess, and each sailor sleeping snug as a bug in his hammock. Buttered Side Down: Stories If Bud Molloy hadn't taken to railroading he could 'a' been a end man in a minstrel show! Calvary Alley The writer had heard of Alfred and his wonderful talents; he was organizing a minstrel show and would like to negotiate with him. Watch Yourself Go By His lips showed some slight resemblance of redness, and his eyes glared wonderfully white; but the rest of his face might have been made up for a minstrel show. Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures Later they had a minstrel show that sent them all into gales of laughter. The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize The first of all the negro minstrel shows came to town, and made a sensation. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. "Take chairs, gents," invited Judge Dolan, looking about him in the manner of a minstrel show's interlocutor. The Heart of the Range The other men ascribed Alfred's fondness for Beckley to the fact that he could perform on the banjo; they often suggested that Alfred and Beckley start a minstrel show. Watch Yourself Go By No one particularly knew it, but he'd been with a traveling minstrel show for those ten years. Andy the Acrobat I'll be busy for the next couple of hours with two of my neighbors who are planning a minstrel show for the country club. Betty Gordon in Washington I'd rather see him repeat that performance than go to a minstrel show. Tales of the Road Like a rock she sat, letting the fickle populace drift by to minstrel show and snake den. Fran Two friends were responsible for my decision to put on a simon-pure, old-time minstrel show. Watch Yourself Go By Miss Stella Starr was listening to some members of the circus minstrel show trying over some new airs on the piano. Andy the Acrobat "I don't know," said I, keeping at her elbow, "whether it's more like Alice or the interlocutor's conversation at a minstrel show." Beasley's Christmas Party Or a whole theatrical company would be brought down to give an entertainment in the theatre; or a minstrel show, or a troupe of acrobats, or a menagerie of trained animals. The Metropolis As you will see by this morning's paper, there is to be a minstrel show next Wednesday for benefit of Austin Grays. Rolling Stones The farce comedy, the musical show are virtually minstrel shows. Watch Yourself Go By They say it was written by a man in New York for a negro minstrel show. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve It was she who conceived the idea of giving the first minstrel show ever presented upon the auditorium boards. Missy In attending the various minstrel shows and circuses which came to the city, he would frequently hear repeated some story of his own which the audience would receive with hilarity. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters In an instant the white countenances of the lads were changed to black—as black as the burnt-cork performers in a minstrel show. Tom Swift and His Airship Let me call your attention to this fact: Every manager that has endeavored to present an old-time, black-face minstrel show in late years has failed. Watch Yourself Go By "What kind of a minstrel show is this?" Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam They organized a minstrel show in the attic; they made acquaintance with the office-seekers and became the hot champions of the distressed. The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln I told my mother that I had walked out of the most gorgeous minstrel show. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it While he was dressing his teeth chattered like castanets in a minstrel show. The Lure of the Dim Trails A minstrel show is alright, but, mind, it's a lifetime job, going into business. Watch Yourself Go By I had opposition with one of those so-called old time minstrel shows a short time ago. Watch Yourself Go By Alfred's great desire was to present his minstrel show in his old home town, Brownsville. Watch Yourself Go By It would have been all right for you to have stayed at the minstrel show. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it If he is, and he's dirty, he could queer us in all these towns; he's been through here with two or three Jim Crow minstrel shows; these rubes imagine he's some pumpkins. Watch Yourself Go By "But it's my ambition to have the biggest minstrel show in the country." Watch Yourself Go By I reckon one thing that made it appear worse is we have a regular minstrel show on hand all the time. Watch Yourself Go By I found that a minstrel show had been thrown out of its regular route by a flood and was playing our town unexpectedly. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it |
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