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Turkey in the straw, cake walk: he takes the cake etc

March of Dimes
Home on the Range

Nuance: ‘lift every voice and sing’ was wittenbby james johnson and scored by rosamund johnson, two Black minstrel performers

I have been disconcerted while reading this book and realizing that the songs I performed with my Montessori school class during our seasonal programs were all minstrel songs mostly written by stephen foster: camp town races, oh susana, downnin dixie…
And so many of us kids were Black.

Quack (re: doctor)
Cut up

Both from minstrelsy

White Christmas film with Bing Crosby features a blackface scene

Minstrel shows used to “rehabilitate” Nazi POWs