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In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industri
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Investigates the origin and heyday of black minstrelsy, which in modern times is considered an embarrassment, and discusses whether or not the art form is actua
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Burnt Cork
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Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy--stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans