A History of Blackface in American Entertainment
Episode Ep 2187 27 min 49s

A History of Blackface in American Entertainment

From All Of It WNYC

It took author and Princeton professor Rhae Lynn Barnes 20 years of dedicated research to complete her new comprehensive history of blackface in American culture, Barnes discusses her book, Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment, in which she which argues that blackface was a widespread practice in entertainment, not a niche one.

Cover art courtesy of the publisher


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