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Blackface entertainers

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Scope of this subject

Here are entered works about members of primarily 19th and early 20th century entertainment groups in which comedians portrayed a caricature of Black people, generally by non-Black people, through the use of makeup, mannerisms, speech patterns, etc.

Scope note supplied by the Library of Congress authority record.

Names and connections

Black-face entertainers; Blackfaced entertainers; Entertainers, Blackface; Minstrels (Blackface entertainers)

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Local answer status

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Numeric address and provenance

Morton address: 14411527620862820932 · morton4x16-v1

Coordinates: (0, 20, 33067, 50176). The address interleaves categorical identifier bits. Nearby addresses are not guaranteed to describe semantically similar subjects.

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