blackface

How To Use blackface In A Sentence

• Most of the rest of the songs, original and traditional, are performed in blackface to illustrate the progress of his minstrel career.
• Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
• Alexander believes that Jews did blackface because this type of performance enabled Jews to identify with the sense of exile and loss of home faced by African Americans.
• In these a hambone was a performer in blackface overacting dialect routines (as in the song, "The Ham-Fat Man"). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
• How had a white dancer in blackface captured a rowdy crowd of laborers?
• Al Jolson, the first true multimedia star, got his start as a blackface minstrel.
• They include the bananaquit, the blue-black grassquit, the blackfaced grassquit, and the St. Lucia black finch.
• Cut to a Broadway theater, where the blackfaced hero sings ‘Mammy’ in a style at once cantorial and operatic, at an energy level that is overpowering.
• Soon he branches out on his own and progresses quickly from chorus singer to a featured act while appearing in blackface with one of the country's popular minstrel shows.
• But Si had already been made aware of his enemy's intention, and had instructed Meg how to act in such an emergency, for it might well be that trouble would come when he was out looking after a 'hogging' he had of 'blackfaces' that were pasturing above the Forks, where the Lewis Border Ghost Stories