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Minstrels in the Classroom: Teaching, Race, and Blackface
- Canadian Theatre Review
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 147, Summer 2011
- pp. 31-37
- 10.1353/ctr.2011.0062
- Article
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For instructors of theatre and performance history, the traditions of blackface minstrelsy present a pedagogical challenge. How to foster sensitive and critically productive discussions about race and representation in the undergraduate classroom? NATALIE ALVAREZ and STEPHEN JOHNSON start the conversation.