NOUN
- a variety show in which the performers are made up in blackface
- a troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes
How To Use minstrel show In A Sentence
- Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.
- Gavin Lawrence as the Interlocutor in The Last Minstrel Show is sleek, sly, and not at all reassuring in his oversized cutaway coat, pin-striped pants, white spats, and Cheshire grin.
- Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.
- That is called a minstrel show, circa the 21st century. Kevin Powell: Ashley Judd and Hip-Hop Culture
- 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.
- Minstrel shows included music, dance and comedy.
- Historical: blackface was used in minstrel shows and later in blackface sketches in more mainstream vaudeville to humorously denigrate African Americans. SNL's Fauxbama Blackface Thing
- Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup. Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan
- Although the Jim Crow character as a feature of minstrel shows became popular in the generation before the Civil War, early photographic images of people in blackface are quite rare.
- Mixing roles "The Scottsboro Boys" makes use of the kind of broad stylized characters typical in minstrel shows and has many of the actors playing multiple roles - including white stereotypes. Broadway Musical Resurrects Grim Racial Event
