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Al Jolson performs in blackface makeup in the 1927 movie “The Jazz Singer.”

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A History Of Blackface In America

By  Meha Ahmad
   

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Reset sits down with Jane Rhodes of the University of Illinois at Chicago to learn about the history of blackface and why it persists in popular culture today.

GUEST: Jane Rhodes, department head and professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago

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