Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy by edited by Annemarie Bean, James B. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara

Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy by Stephen Burge Johnson

Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert C. Toll

Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott

Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture by William J. Mahar

Demons of Disorder: Early Minstrels and Their World by Dale Cockrell

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop by W. T. Lhamon

Scandalize My Name: Black Imagery in American Popular by Sam Dennison

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen

Men in Blackface: True Stories of the Minstrel Show by Seymour Stark

Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions: From the Old World to the New by Robert Hornback

Blackface Nation: Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925 by Brian Roberts

"Gentlemen, be seated!" : the rise and the fall of the minstrel show by Bauch, Mark A.

Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture by Lhamon, Jr., W.T.

Masquerade in black by Leonard, William Torbert

Monarchs of minstrelsy : from "Daddy" Rice to date by Rice, Edward Le Roy

Ragged but right : black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz by Abbott, Lynn Abbott and Seroff, Doug

Representing African Americans in transatlantic abolitionism and blackface minstrelsy by Nowatzki, Robert

Spirituals and the birth of a Black entertainment industry by Graham, Sandra Jean

Tambo and bones : a history of the American minstrel stage by Wittke, Carl

The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy by Smith, Christopher J.

Theatrical and circus life, or, Secrets of the stage, greenroom, and sawdust arena : a history of the theatre from Shakespeare’s time to the present day, and abounding in anecdotes concerning the most prominent actors and actresses before the public : als by Jennings, John J.

Birth of a Notion; Or, The Half Ain't Never Been Told: A Narrative Account with Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy and of America and the True Relation Thereof by Bill Harris

Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance by Marvin McAllister

Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh

Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America’s First Black Star by Camille F. Forbes

Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy by Hans Nathan

The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics by David Weinstein

Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard Of by David Carlyon

Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture by Ken Emerson

Jolson: The Story of Al Jolson by Michael Freedland

George Christy, or, The fortunes of a minstrel by Tony Pastor

Anthems and minstrel shows : the life and times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891 by Thompson, Brian Christopher

Black Dance: From 1619 to Today by Lynne Fauley Emery

Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Katrina Dyonne Thompson

Denison’s minstrel and song catalogue. by Denison

Rolling along in song : a chronological survey of American Negro music : with eighty-seven arrangements of Negro songs, including ring shouts, spirituals, work songs, plantation ballads, chain-gang, jail-house, and minstrel songs, street cries, and blues by Johnson, J. Rosamond

Baker’s Darkey plays : a collection of short, humorous plays in black face suitable for negro minstrel entertainments.

Brudder Bones “4-11-44” joker, containing a jolly lot of sable conundrums, Ethiopian jokes, burnt cork… by Henry J. Wehman

Burnt Cork Jokes

How to Put on a Minstrel Show by Harold Rossiter

The Minstrel Guide and Joke Book by Paul E. Lowe

Tambo and Bones: A History of the American Minstrel Stage by Carl Frederick Wittke

The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia by by Frank Dumont

The World’s Best Book of Minstrelsy by Herbert Preston Powell

“Gentlemen, Be Seated!”: A Parade of the Old-Time Minstrels by Dailey Paskman

Negro minstrels : a complete guide to Negro minstrelsy, containing recitations, jokes, crossfires, conundrums, riddles, stump speeches, ragtime and sentimental songs, etc., including hints on organizing and successfully presenting a performance by Haverly, Jack

Old cabin home minstrels : a minstrel entertainment in three acts made up of old plantation songs, for the use of church, lodge, club, school, or community choruses / compiled and arranged by Adams, Carrie B.

This grotesque essence : plays from the American minstrel stage by Engle, Gary D.

Little Tommy Parker celebrated colored minstrel show by Brown, Carlyle

At Ease by Writers and Material Committee of Camp Shows, Inc.

The minstrel encyclopedia by Hare, Walter Ben

The world’s best book of minstrelsy / by Herbert Preston Powell ; illustrated by Charles Clark, full instructions for producing, with complete first parts and specialties. by Powell, Preston

Banjo Roots and Branches by edited by Robert B. Winans

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War by Dena J. Epstein

The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy by Bob Carlin

Banjo: An Illustrated History by Bob Carlin

African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions by Cecelia Conway

That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture by Karen Linn

Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music by Diane Pecknold

America’s instrument : the banjo in the nineteenth century by Gura, Philip F. & Bollman, James F.

Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows by Henry T. Sampson

The Ghost Walks: A Chronological History of Blacks in Show Business, 1865-1910 by Henry T. Sampson

Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music 1889-1895 by Lynn Abbott and Doug Serogg

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz by Lynn Abbott and Doug Serogg

The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville by Lynn Abbott and Doug Serogg

100 Years of the Negro in Show Business: The Tom Fletcher Story by Thomas Fletcher

The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-On-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei

Whiting up : whiteface minstrels & stage Europeans in African American performance by McAllister, Marvin

Little Tommy Parker celebrated colored minstrel show. by rown, Carlyle.

Nineteenth-Century Banjos in the Twenty-First Century: Custom and Tradition in a Modern Early Banjo Revival. Master’s Thesis (M.A.)—University of Maryland by Greg C. Adams

Sound in the Construction of Race: Blackface to Blacksound in Nineteenth-Century America. Dissertation (Ph.D.)—Columbia University by Matthew D. Morrison

Darkology: The Hidden History of Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of Modern America, 1860-1970. Dissertation (Ph.D.)—Harvard University by Rhae Lynn Barnes

The Creation, Challenge, and Reinvention of “Daddy” Rice’s Blackface Puppet: Blackface Minstrelsy in America—Past, Present, and Future. Master’s Thesis (M.A.)—The Brooklyn Center by Steven Rice

The Minstrel in the Parlor: Nineteenth-Century Sheet Music and the Domestication of Blackface Minstrelsy. Dissertation (Ph.D.)—University of Massachusetts Amherst by Stephanie Elaine Dunson

Performing Race: Instances of Color Representation in American Culture. Master’s Thesis (M.A.)—The College of William and Mary by Katrin L. Adkins

Blackface Minstrelsy: Handbooks for the Amateur, 1899 to 1921. Dissertation (Ph.D.)—University of Minnesota by Barbara Schulman

Stowe, Poe, and the Minstrel Show: An Observation of Minstrel Show Stock Characters in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Master’s Thesis (M.A.)—California State University by Kimberly Calvert

Hemispheric Minstrelsies: Race, Nation, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Performance. Dissertation (Ph.D.)—Indiana University of Pennsylvania by Jessica M. Showalter

“Black Opera”: Antebellum Blackface Minstrelsy and European Opera. Dissertation (Ph.D.)—University of Maryland College Park by Renee Lapp Norris

The mockery of nature: Blackface minstrel humor and race science in nineteenth-century America by Mark Leahy