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Blackface on Stage: The Complicated History of Minstrel Shows by Jonathan Mandell

The strange doings in Virginia have brought blackface back in the news. Reaction to the unearthing of a photograph on the 1984 medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam attests to the peculiar place of the practice in American culture and the special outrage it provokes: Far more commentators condemned the blackface than even...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48am on February 7, 2019 ☆ ⚑

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