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Whitewashing Blackface and Whistling Dixie : The Commemoration of Dan Emmett

Drawing of the Virginia Minstrels

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1. Advertisement for "The Jazz Singer," 1927
3. Advertisement for "Darkest America" by Al G. Field's Refined Negro Minstrels, 1896 Advertisement for Field's Minstrels. "'Darkest America' 50 - Real Southern Negroes - 50 25 - Mobile Buck & Wing Dancers - 25 20 - The Charleston Shouters and Singers - 20 10 - Pickaninny Dancers - 10 20 - Matchless Musicians - 20 Si Hassen Ben Alis Troupe of Arabs Home Life in the South! Plantation Pastimes! Pictures of Dixie Land! Dances of the South! -- The Al. G. Field. Refined Negro Minstrels Opera House, Deseronto Monday Evg., April 20th -- Big Parade at 12.30 p. m. Plan open at Naylors." Advertisement from Deseronto Tribune, 17 April 1896, for "Darkest America", a show at Naylor's Theatre by the Al. G. Field Refined Negro Minstrels.
4. Bryant's Minstrels Walkaround, December 19, 1859
9. Drawing of the Virginia Minstrels
10. "Dandy Jim from Caroline," 1844 Virginia Minstrels Song sheet
11. Prop Cut Out Hand from the production of "The Birth of Dixie," Mount Vernon, OH
12. Prop Cut Out Hand from the production of "The Birth of Dixie," Mount Vernon, OH

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A Historical Note on Blackface Today blackface is generally understood to be racially offensive, although historians argue that the practice didn't quite start that way. Sentence here. But as blackface became more popular and especially more commercial,..Historians also agree that Dan Emmett played a major role in making blackface x. Steeped in racial stereotypes; link to NMAAH site
The Virginia Minstrels