In the United States, minstrel shows were a popular and derogatory type of theater performances in which Black actors—or, more commonly, white actors in blackface—played characters based on racist stereotypes about Black people.
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Chapter 8: Professional Educated Discouraged
...for refusing to train them. This makes it difficult for them to succeed outside of minstrelsy and cabarets. Finally, Black writers don’t get recognized if they write about Black people, because...
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