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Blackface Minstrelsy Resources: Blackface in Other Cultures

This guide has been developed by The Center for American Music to provide resources for researching blackface minstrelsy and other demonstrations of blackface performance.

Blackface Outside of America

Minstrel memories : the story of burnt cork minstrelsy in Great Britain from 1836 to 1927 by Reynolds, Harry
Call Number: PN2582.N4 R4 1928
Publication Date: 1928

Blackface at Work and Play: Amateur Minstrel Groups in the Hunter Valley, 1840–1880
Blackface minstrelsy in Australia
Blackface at the Andean Fiesta: Performing Blackness in the Danza de Caporales
Latin American Research Review article
Burlesquing Blackness: Racial Significations in Carnivals and the Carnivalesque on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 5-20.
This country with a colonial history has a blackface problem
Dutch antiracism activists protest over blackface character
One of the World’s Most Watched TV Shows Keeps Using Blackface
From Covid to Blackface on TV, China’s Racism Problem Runs Deep
Italian TV network Rai bans the use of blackface on-screen