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- noun The
art ofminstrels . - noun A simplified depiction of another culture, especially
black African , forentertainment purposes, generally seen as offensive.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And to put the record straight, I have never used the word "minstrelry" in any of my comments in this forum.
Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009
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RaeK, you've compared Obama's campaign to "minstrelry" in this forum, your icon is a black sheep, you're charging the usual reverse racism.
Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009
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Bat Buano wrote: RaeK, you've compared Obama's campaign to "minstrelry" in this forum, ....
Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009
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And to put the record straight, I have never used the word "minstrelry" in any of my comments in this forum.
Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009
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RaeK, you've compared Obama's campaign to "minstrelry" in this forum, ....
Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009
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Perhaps my memory of you using the term "minstrelry" could be faulty; perhaps it was something referring to some other form of black-face stage craft of days gone by.
Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009
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Bringing the term "minstrelry" into his review would seem to bring in stereotyping, wouldn't it?
IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005
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The Conqueror offers a mind-bending act of interracial minstrelry, as supercracker John Wayne fused DNA with the great Asian conqueror eventually known as Genghis Khan but known as Temujin here to become an odd creature known, to me at least, as John Wayneghis Khan.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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After all, there were plenty of blacks and whites in minstrelry.
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It may point to a certain ignorance of minstrelry in popular-culture but the image itself was simply created by a bored Arab college student with no political agenda in mind.
Professor Radical Goes To Washington To Preview The Apocalypse Tenured Radical 2009
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