To realize how much white America loved minstrelsy is a reckoning painful or shameful, depending on one's ancestry. Minstrel shows were never meant for people of African descent to see; they were intended for white eyes only, and white people flocked to them. In the guise of popular entertainment, minstrel shows functioned as anti-Black propaganda […] The post Magic Time!: The Power of Subversive Design in 'Day of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AM on October 17, 2019