About This Blog

This blog is an updated copy (2024) of my web site
at: https://black-face.com/
that began in 2009.

Sources

The following books were my primary sources and are recommended for further reading:

African American Films Through 1959 -- Larry Richards
Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America -- Robert C. Toll
Black Film/White Money -- Jesse Algeron Rhines
Black Like Me -- John Strausbaugh
Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films -- Henry T. Sampson
Blacks in Blackface: A Source Book on Early Black Musical Shows -- Henry T. Sampson
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, The Story of Black Hollywood -- Donald Bogle
Channeling Blackness -- Darnell M. Hunt
Darkest America, Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop -- Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen
Inside the Minstrel Mask, Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy -- Annemarie Bean
Introducing Bert Williams -- Camille F. Forbes
Jim Crow, American: Selected Songs and Plays -- W. T. Lhamon Jr.
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class -- Eric Lott
Men in Blackface -- Seymour Stark
Monarchs of Minstrelsy -- Edward Le Roy Rice
Nobody, The Story of Bert Williams -- Ann Charters
Prime Time Blues, African Americans on Network Television -- Donald Bogle
Raising Cain, Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop -- W. T. Lhamon Jr.
The Ghost Walks: A chronological history of blacks in show business, 1865-1910 -- Henry T. Sampson
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow -- Richard Wormser
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks -- Donald Bogle
Where Dead Voices Gather -- Nick Tosches