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Detail:
Rustic Dance After Sleigh Ride. William Sidney Mount. 1830
A forerunner of 19th-century
"sambo" paintings: grinning, red-lipped, clown-like African American
entertainers.
Minstrel Show advertisement
What
stereotypes of African American people does the advertisement
illustrate?
Minstrel show characters
Minstrel show actors
were both whites and African Americans in "black face" makeup.
"We wear the mask
that grins and lies..."
--Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the
Mask"
Robert
Lee MacCameron. New Orleans Darkey. ca. 1910.
Is
this figure naturalistically portrayed, or is it stereotypical? Is the
title a clue?
How does it illustrate Dunbar's
poem?
William
Sidney Mount. The Bone Player. 1856
Is
this portrait stereotypical or not?
Eastman
Johnson. Fiddling His Way. 1866. (Detail
right)
Portrait
of an itinerant musician.
Is the portrait stereotypical?
Note
the musician's position and "status" among the white listeners; are
they similar to that of the fiddler in Rustic Dance (top of page)? Or
is there a difference?
Henry
Tanner. The Banjo Lesson (1893)
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