# Blackface minstrel shows

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  "title": "Blackface minstrel shows",
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Here are entered works on the primarily 19th and early 20th century entertainments in which comedians portrayed a caricature of Black people, generally by non-Black people, through the use of makeup, mannerisms, speech patterns, etc.

Directory metadata is not a factual answer or evidence of a global knowledge gap.

Source: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2023000388

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