Butters described minstrel shows this way: They appropriated and misrepresented black culture, and the unflattering depictions of blacks were attempts by white men to control and dominate American ...

The sight of middle-class South Bay suburbanites donning blackface makeup in order to play roles in minstrel shows at the local high school auditorium benefit show is wildly inappropriate by modern ...

I've lived here a long time and have learned and heard about a lot of things, but a couple of weeks ago I heard about something that really threw me. Did you know that well into the 1960s, a common ...