The blackface minstrel act was a very popular form of entertainment in 19th-century America.
Al Jolson, a blackface comedian, singing tap dancer and the show's star, recorded it the next year.
Schendel also claimed that "blackface is part of a theatre tradition" in Germany.
Although there is no history of minstrel shows in Germany, Mr Schendel says "blackface is part of a theatre tradition" in Germany.
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All of them were in blackface, except Morrie Daigle, in the center, who wore a white suit and a white top hat.
In another series of works, Greenfield takes photos of turn-of-the-century blackface performers and superimposes a subversive message that looks like an eye chart.
Called "The Argument, " the painting depicts a street scene and a couple of men who look like minstrels in blackface, with oversize red lips.
Artist Mark Steven Greenfield is one of several African-American artists who's using the iconic images of the blackface minstrel in his paintings and sculptures.
But, he said, "Tropic Thunder" is a long way from the days when white performers would don blackface as a way of exploiting black stereotypes.
But the same American cultural superiority that clutches at pearls when it encounters Dutch revelers in blackface appears unconcerned by the stereotypical portrayal of dwarves as elves.
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He was not in blackface, yet his assurance, his posture, the way he sat, like the owner of the store, made him seem more than ever like Mr. Bones.
In a two-part report for The Tavis Smiley Show, producer Roy Hurst explores the roots of blackface minstrelry, and how the legacy of the act still haunts some forms of black popular entertainment today.
New York (CNN) -- A New York state lawmaker said Monday he's sorry if he offended anyone by dressing in blackface for a Purim party, but a colleague says his apology doesn't go far enough.
Behn's high-nosed, thin-lipped and French-educated Oroonoko is essentially an idealised European prince in blackface, while the sighs and tremblings of the lovers and the wanton dalliance of the king have an air of cupids and harpsichords and peeping breasts.
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