blackface minstrelsy: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Minnesota Historical Society - MNopedia - Blackface Minstrelsy in Minnesota. Oct 10, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy and Contemporary American Media: The Political Critique of Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (PDF). Mar 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Lindenwood University - Beyond Blackface: Minstrel Show In Modern America (PDF). Sep 06, 2025
Add new Web site: The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College - Ole’ Zip Coon is a Mighty Learned Scholar: Blackface Minstrelsy as Reflection and Foundation of American Popular Culture (PDF). Jul 25, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN - This is why blackface is offensive. Mar 18, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Behind the legacy of America's blackface. Feb 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Hollins University - Wyndham Robertson Library - Blackface. Dec 10, 2024
Modernized language throughout. Nov 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Minnesota Historical Society - MNopedia - Blackface Minstrelsy in Minnesota. Sep 25, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Pittsburgh - Blackface Minstrelsy. May 22, 2024
Add new Web site: National Museum of African American History and Culture - Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Minnesota Historical Society - MNopedia - Blackface Minstrelsy in Minnesota. Dec 06, 2023
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Blackface. Aug 29, 2023
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Blackface. Aug 28, 2023
Add new Web site: American Heritage - Blackface: the Sad History of Minstrel Shows. Aug 30, 2022
Corrected display issue. Mar 08, 2019
Revised to cast blackface minstrelsy as a single component of a broader minstrelsy tradition. Dec 10, 2009
Article revised and updated. Jun 27, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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