"Minstrel Military: How America Weaponized Blackface to Fight Nazis" will examine the role amateur blackface minstrel shows played in the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. In the century spanning the end of the Civil War to the birth of the Civil Rights Movement (an era called "Jim Crow," after the first blackface character), the American government refocused domestic and foreign policy to federalize, finance, distribute, codify, and produce racist amateur blackface music and plays in public schools, the military, and everyday American life as an expression of patriotic duty and citizenship.
Minstrel Military: How America Weaponized Blackface to Fight Nazis
Friday, February 23, 2018 12:15pm The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
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The Heyman Center Fellows
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Rhae Lynn BarnesAssistant Professor of History
Princeton University
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