Hist 390 The Digital Past

Oct 14

Finally we are back to music! I was actually really intrigued by class this week and talking about the Minstrel Shows. I think a lot of people know about “blackface” as it is called, as today’s society focuses more and more on race and the problems people of color face in today’s society, as I think it should. It’s important to recognize why things are happening in a society to truly understand why things are the way they are in the present.

Minstrel shows, were to be frank, very strange. The idea that white men dressed up as black men for entertainment is strange, and the fact it got so popular is also strange.

However, I think the strangest part of the whole thing is that black people themselves later joined minstrel shows. I don’t quite understand why, although I can empathize it was one of the few avenues for people of color at that time as well.

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