272: Burnt Corks & Cakewalks: The Toxic Legacy of Blackface in American History

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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Each week we take a topic that people are t...

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Ed, Nathan and Brian explore the history of blackface, from its
heyday as the most popular form of entertainment in America to
its afterlife in the controversial images that appear in college
yearbooks. What explains the long life of blackface in American
culture?

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