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A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War.

African Americans in the performing arts --- Northeastern states --- Race discrimination --- White people --- Blackface entertainers --- Racism in popular culture --- Slavery --- History --- Race relations --- Whites

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Whites --- Racism in popular culture --- Minstrel shows --- Blackface entertainers --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- Popular culture --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- Race identity --- Social aspects --- History. --- United States --- Race relations --- American minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy, American --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows

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This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare. Jim Crow and antebellum minstrelsy recycled Old World blackface stereotypes of irrationality, ignorance, pride, and immorality. Drawing upon biblical interpretations and philosophy, comic types from moral allegory originated supposedly modern racial stereotypes. Early blackface traditions thus spread damning race-belief that black people were less rational, hence less moral and less human. Such notions furthered the global Renaissance's intertwined Atlantic slave and sugar trades and early nationalist movements. The latter featured overlapping definitions of race and nation, as well as of purity of blood, language, and religion in opposition to 'Strangers'. Ultimately, Old World beliefs still animate supposed 'biological racism' and so-called 'white nationalism' in the age of Trump.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Theatrical science --- History --- imperialisme --- theater --- geschiedenis --- racisme --- kolonialisme --- Race in the theater --- Blackface entertainers --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in the performing arts --- Theater --- Theater. --- Imperialism. --- Theatre History. --- National and Regional Theatre and Performance. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History.

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Blackface entertainers --- Minstrel shows --- Blacks --- Whites --- Race identity --- South Africa --- Social life and customs. --- Race relations. --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- Race question --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people --- American minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy, American --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows

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Blackface entertainers --- Minstrel music --- Minstrel shows --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- American minstrelsy --- Blackface minstrelsy --- Ethiopian operas (Minstrel music) --- Ethiopian songs (Minstrel music) --- Minstrel songs --- Minstrelsy, American --- Minstrelsy, Blackface --- Operas, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Songs, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Popular music --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Entertainers --- History and criticism --- History --- Dixon, George Washington, --- Dixon, G. W. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Social conditions --- Race question --- Race relations --- Dixon, George Washington --- 19th century --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Minstrelsy --- American minstrel music --- Minstrel show songs --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows --- MINSTREL SHOWS --- MINSTREL MUSIC --- BLACKFACE ENTERTAINERS --- DIXON (GEORGE WASHINGTON), 1808-1861 --- U.S. --- RACE RELATIONS --- HISTORY --- SOCIAL CONDITIONS --- 19th CENTURY