Sentences with phrase «blackface minstrels»

Sprinkling the dialogue with liberal bromides protects the makers from the accurate charge of producing the gay equivalent of a blackface minstrel show.

In his statement on the costume, Mr. Camara described it as «insensitive,» compared it to the «blackface minstrel show» and demanded an apology.

I can't imagine this blackface minstrel show would ever be a hit series, as it's simply not very funny in any way (and even for a show about blackface, it goes into cheap and lazy territory).

Curiously absent from the movie's relentless feel - good offensive are any references to, say, the blackface minstrel acts that Barnum produced.

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The straw that broke the camel's back was when he insisted that I [a black woman] should not be offended when he [a white man] laughs at blackface and minstrel shows.

His plans misfire when his «minstrel show for the new millenium» becomes a mega-hit, inspiring fans all over the country to don blackface call themselves «real» (n - words).

Disembodied eyes and lips float, hostage, in the electric black of the minstrel stage, distorting the African body into American blackface.»