Black-face.com Website Review

Blackface is more than just burnt cork applied as makeup. It is a style of entertainment based on racist Black stereotypes The stock characters of blackface minstrelsy have played a significant role in disseminating racist images, attitudes and perceptions worldwide. Every immigrant group was stereotyped on the music hall stage during the 19th Century, but the history of prejudice, hostility, and ignorance towards black people has insured a unique longevity to the stereotypes. White America's conceptions of Black entertainers were shaped by minstrelsy's mocking caricatures and for over one hundred years the belief that Blacks were racially and socially inferior was fostered by legions of both white and black performers in blackface. Originating in the White man's characterizations of plantation sl*ves and free blacks during the era of minstrel shows (1830-1890), the caricatures took such a firm hold on the American imagination that audiences expected any person with dark skin, no matter what their background, to conform to one or more of the stereotypes:   The term Jim Crow originated in 1830 when a White minstrel show performer, Thomas Daddy Rice, blackened his face with burnt cork and First performed by George Dixon in 1834, Zip Coon made a mockery of free blacks. An arrogant, ostentatious figure, he dressed in high style and spoke in a series of malaprops and puns that undermined his attempts to appear dignified. Jim Crow and Zip Coon eventually merged into a single stereotype called simply coon. Mammy is a source of earthy wisdom who is fiercely independent and brooks no backtalk. Although her image changed a little over the Toms are typically good, gentle, religious and sober. Images of Uncle Toms were another favorite of advertisers and Uncle Ben is still The Buck is a large Black man who is proud, sometimes menacing, and always interested in White women. The temptress. During the minstrel era, wenches were typically a male in female garb. In film, wenches were usually female mulattos.