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Meaning of "minstrel show"
minstrel show - This phrase historically refers to a form of entertainment popular in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It featured white performers in blackface makeup portraying caricatures of African Americans for comedic, musical, and sometimes satirical purposes. The term "minstrel show" is now considered offensive and inappropriate due to its racist origins.
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- A variety show performed by minstrels, primarily white people in blackface.
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minstrel show
He even appeared in a minstrel show at the prison.
The minstrel show and blackface.
Got the reports on the minstrel show.
He joined a minstrel show and later appeared with Lew Dockstader for a few years.
The show we are doing is a minstrel show.
Like a minstrel show.
I have got reports on the minstrel show.
And hear all your minstrel show singing on this bus.
You should not be looking at this minstrel show.
You are nothing but a minstrel show turned on its ear.
Claimed he was not informed of the minstrel show.
To see a minstrel show.
I have spent the best part of my life in a minstrel show.
Talk about a goddamn minstrel show right there.
The climactic production number ridicules war by comparing nationalism to a minstrel show.
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This is not a minstrel show.
He made his first stage appearance at the age of five in a minstrel show.
I had my own minstrel show.
Certainly they avoided turning the evening into a black minstrel show.
This was the minstrel show.
You two keep that up you have got the beginning of a pretty good minstrel show.
It would be a minstrel show.
The rise of the minstrel show coincided with the growing abolitionist movement in the North.
I would rather see a minstrel show.
This minstrel show toured America and Europe.
Time to start the minstrel show.
The minstrel show was invented by Dan Emmett and the Virginia Minstrels.
He entered show business as a blackface minstrel show singer.
The minstrel show as a complete evening 's entertainment was born.
You must be here for the minstrel show.
The minstrel show is America 's first original theatre form.
It was originally sung at a minstrel show by.
The minstrel show remained popular in England through the end of the 19th century.
This is like an Asian minstrel show.
You are nothing but a minstrel show turned on its ear . Al Jolson in a FUBU hat.
Why do not I just put on some clown white and do a minstrel show.
Selig had worked as a magician and minstrel show operator on the west coast of California.
And in evenings, is end man in a minstrel show.
Later, the kids put on a minstrel show in a local talent contest.
After-dinner entertainment included a minstrel show.
Seems I missed one minstrel show at the ball.
I am beginnin ' to feel like an end man in a minstrel show.
It 's like a guinea minstrel show over there.
You are in here as a suspect, and not a man on a minstrel show.
Brazilian minstrel show meets Trading Places?
If someone was going to do a KKK reenactment or a minstrel show or something like that.
It's like a guinea minstrel show over there. It's like a dago Disney World.
You would be dancing for them, it would be a minstrel show.
Mantan's New Millennium Minstrel Show is gonna take place on a plantation.
And she 's coming up to the black and white minstrel show.
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