About This Blog This blog is an updated copy (2024) of my web site at: https://black-face.com/ that began in 2009. Sources The following books were my primary sources and are recommended for further reading: African American Films Through 1959 -- Larry Richards Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America -- Robert C. Toll Black Film/White Money -- Jesse Algeron Rhines Black Like Me -- John Strausbaugh Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films -- Henry T. Sampson Blacks in Blackface: A Source Book on Early Black Musical Shows -- Henry T. Sampson Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, The Story of Black Hollywood -- Donald Bogle Channeling Blackness -- Darnell M. Hunt Darkest America, Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop -- Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen Inside the Minst...