blackface, like many forms of racism, is a pleasurable activity for the practitioner. it allows them to relish in mockery and, like traditional minstrelsy, frees them to behave in taboo or transgressive ways, that they can attribute to the racial costumehttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1174798801334390788 …
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i think i got it from What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
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Stony the Road and Stamped From the Beginning also point in this direction RE origins of minstrelsy IIRC
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