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The minstrel, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in "Blackface" or, especially after the Civil War, black people in "black-face". "Black-face" branched off from the minstrel show. Minstrel shows lampooned black people as ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical. Needless to say they were incredibly racist and have justifiably fallen out of public favor

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