‘Lawdy! I was sho’ happy when I was a slave!’: Manipulative editing in the WPA former-slave narratives from Mississippi by Ellen Hampton

“…Editing occurred on both the state and federal level, apparently aimed both at mitigating the evils of slavery as an institution, and at reinforcing minstrel-show stereotypes of African-Americans as ignorant and colorful. …”
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Infants of the Spring (1932): Cutting across the Stage of Harlem’s Black Bohemia by Elisa Cecchinato

“…This article discusses how, using the metaphor of theater, and specifically the highly racially codified genre of the minstrel show, Infants of the Spring depicts male, Black, and queer identities in the modern urban landscape. …”
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Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999 by Stephen Hamrick

“… Despite Shakespeare’s rejection of comic, racist stereotypes in Othello, minstrel shows offered racist blackface caricatures of slaves and others of African descent that filtered through British Music Hall and Variety to television sketch comedy. …”
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