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fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

How a Determined Scholar Captured the Breadth of Blackface

I realized there was pretty much nobody who is a famous 19th-century minstrel performer who was not an Elk. It just became synonymous.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

At Encores!, the Second Wild Party Follows the First (Again)

The Wild Party explores identity performance and racial passing in 1920s New York through a musical adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem, examining how characters adopt false personas at a decadent party.
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