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The Minstrel shows was entertainment in the 19th century that had song, dance, and skits performed by white actors in blackface. With these skits being performed people would have the stereotype towards African Americans that they were inferior and just there to take instructions from white people.

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¨Minstrel shows featured white men in black-face and outrageous costumes. The men played music, danced, and acted burlesque skits, but the central feature of the shows was the exaggerated imitation of black speech and mannerisms, which produced a stereotype of blacks as docile, happy, and ignorant.¨ (page 2.)

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White male actors would dress up as African American´s and did skits that would make them look inferior and underneath white people. They would put black paint on their faces and made a stereotype for African American people that they were there just to accept instructions.

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What the actors looked like and what they wore to perform