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(the separation of blacks from whites and the general customs and laws that subordinated blacks as an inferior people) |
(Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled black slave, dubbed Jim Crow) |
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According to PBS, | According to PBS, | ||
:On the eve of the Civil War, the universal image of the silly Jim Crow minstrel character provided southern whites with one of many stereotypical images of black inferiority that were a fundamental component of white popular culture. By the 1890s, the term had come to mean the separation of blacks from whites and the general customs and laws that subordinated blacks as an inferior people. [http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/glossary.cgi] | :On the eve of the Civil War, the universal image of the silly Jim Crow minstrel character provided southern whites with one of many stereotypical images of black inferiority that were a fundamental component of white popular culture. By the 1890s, the term had come to mean the separation of blacks from whites and the general customs and laws that subordinated blacks as an inferior people. [http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/glossary.cgi] | ||
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| + | The Center for American Music says: | ||
| + | :The "father of American minstrelsy" was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, who, between 1828 and 1831, developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled black slave, dubbed Jim Crow. [http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/minstrel.htm] | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/series/program1.htm History of Jim Crow] - [[PBS]] series | *[http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/series/program1.htm History of Jim Crow] - [[PBS]] series | ||
| + | *[http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/minstrel.htm Minstrelsy] - Center for American Music | ||
Revision as of 12:43, May 10, 2007
According to PBS,
- On the eve of the Civil War, the universal image of the silly Jim Crow minstrel character provided southern whites with one of many stereotypical images of black inferiority that were a fundamental component of white popular culture. By the 1890s, the term had come to mean the separation of blacks from whites and the general customs and laws that subordinated blacks as an inferior people. [1]
The Center for American Music says:
- The "father of American minstrelsy" was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, who, between 1828 and 1831, developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled black slave, dubbed Jim Crow. [2]
External links
- History of Jim Crow - PBS series
- Minstrelsy - Center for American Music