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| Minstrelsy, he argues, is an act of "self-humiliation" and "symbolic self-maiming," reducing the blackface entertainer into a "'sacrificial' figure" rather than elevating him to the status of taunting trickster (112). Blackface regularly turns up on campuses, usually as part of misguided Halloween costumes, according to reports on www. It is Williams's decision to don blackface and perfect the stage role of the shuffling, befuddled Negro, which earns him his singular recognition, while alienating him from colleagues, friends, family and even himself. |
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blackface - the makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro