The Confluence
Student Type
Undergraduate
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This essay explores the history of Blackface in America and how not addressing or treating Blackface as a taboo has allowed for microaggressions within the media to continue.
Recommended Citation
Burns, Cheyenne
(2023)
"Beyond Blackface: Minstrel Shows in Modern Day America,"
The Confluence: Vol. 2:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62608/2150-2633.1046
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theconfluence/vol2/iss2/4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Date
2/6/23
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Education Commons, Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons
Author Bio
Cheyenne Burns is a senior English major with a minor in Gender Studies at Lindenwood University. Her research focuses on the importance of intersectionality within literature and the media and how that impacts oppressed groups of people.