Thursday, September 03, 2009
Brow Beat : Blackface, Reconsidered
Slate.com: "I wrote a piece in yesterday's New York Times about Sophie Tucker, whose earliest recordings, some almost a century old, have been released for the first time in decades on a new CD. I describe Tucker's rise from the burlesque and variety stage circuit to vaudeville stardom and note her origins as a 'coon shouter'—a performer of blackface songs."
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While obviously blackface is horrible and racist, I agree that you cannot negate the actions of a person simply because they were racist in a time when it was almost acceptable to perform in blackface. We do not negate the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson simply because he owned slaves.
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