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[The above quote taken from my new play, Master Juba, describes the makeup process white performers used to become a blackface minstrel and thus grotesquely caricature black culture. It was one of the most popular forms of entertainment during the nineteenth century, yet race was not allowed to be mixed on stage, until black performers blacked up and imitated white minstrels imitating them. Historically, black people in theatre were not writers or directors, but on-stage spectacles shoring up the colonial imagination of the other. Like Morgan Smith, Ira Aldridge came to Europe to escape racism in the United States during the nineteenth century and played a number of Shakespeare’s leading male roles to popular acclaim. But he experienced similar discrimination in England and fled, eventually finding recognition and prominence in his tours of Western and Eastern Europe. His innovative contribution to the development of the Method School of Acting has still not been fully credited.2]
Published: Mar 5, 2015
Keywords: Black Woman; Cocoa Butter; Black Community; Black People; Black Youth
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