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'Afternoon Shift' #136: Black entertainment
August 28, 2012
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'Afternoon Shift' #136: Black entertainment
We talk with the authors of a book on black minstrelsy, then talk in depth with the legendary Wynton Marsalis.
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The book
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
makes the provocative argument that some modern hip-hop stars are the new generation of black minstrels. We talk with the book's authors Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen on Tuesday's show. Here's a montage of minstrel shows from Spike Lee's 2000 satire
Bamboozled.
Blackface Montage from Spike Lee's Bamboozledtimeforevolution
