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"The young men must blacken their faces": The Blackface Minstrel Show in Preindustrial South Africa
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2013 (T218)
- pp. 66-85
- Article
- Additional Information
The blackface minstrel troupes who toured preindustrial South Africa contributed to the preservation of both the boundaries of racial difference in the British colonies of that country and the racial hierarchies of the Cape and Natal colonies.