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The Minstrel Show & the Banjo
This morning, I watched a segment called “Blackface” on the Sunday CBS Morning Show. The show accurately portrayed this time in history as “Unmasking the racist history of blackface”. It reveals the sad and disturbing portrayal of racist stereotype in … Continue reading
Posted in Banjo, History
Tagged Carolina Chocolate Drops, David Holt, minstrel show, Rhiannon Giddens
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