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Jim Crow
Theater -- United State...
Title
Jim Crow
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Famous white minstrel T.D. Rice performing as the Jim Crow 'trickster' character ; Thomas Dartmouth Rice was an American performer and playwright who used African-American vernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. Though his act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized them with a national, and later international, audience, Rice's 'Jim Crow' persona was a racial caricature contrived to flatter contemporary belief in white superiority
Jim Crow
Theater -- United State...
Title
Jim Crow
Description
Famous white minstrel T.D. Rice performing as the Jim Crow 'trickster' character ; Thomas Dartmouth Rice was an American performer and playwright who used African-American vernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. Though his act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized them with a national, and later international, audience, Rice's 'Jim Crow' persona was a racial caricature contrived to flatter contemporary belief in white superiority
Jim Crow
Theater -- United State...
Title
Jim Crow
Description
Famous white minstrel T.D. Rice performing as the Jim Crow 'trickster' character ; Thomas Dartmouth Rice was an American performer and playwright who used African-American vernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. Though his act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized them with a national, and later international, audience, Rice's 'Jim Crow' persona was a racial caricature contrived to flatter contemporary belief in white superiority
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