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Refer to "We Wear the Mask" and "Sympathy"
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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.

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Minstrel Show advertisement

What stereotypes of African American people does the advertisement illustrate?

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Minstrel show characters

Minstrel show actors were both whites and African Americans in "black face" makeup.

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"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?

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William Sidney Mount. The Bone Player. 1856

Is this portrait stereotypical or not?

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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?

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Henry Tanner. The Banjo Lesson (1893)

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How does this painting, by an African American painter, of African Americans and music, a common stereotype, counter stereotypical images and prejudices?
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American Literature Survey II: Ron Tranquilla
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