Acultural memory of blackface: Burnt cork, red lips. Steppity-steppity-step, shuffle, slapstick. "Authentic" former slaves, dancing for the white folks. T.D. "Daddy" Rice, a white man in the cork and face paint, a national sensation in the 1830s, doing a dance he lifted from a Negro in Cincinnati... -
Hollywood's About-Face On Blackface
Acultural memory of blackface: Burnt cork, red lips. Steppity-steppity-step, shuffle, slapstick. "Authentic" former slaves, dancing for the white folks. T.D. "Daddy" Rice, a white man in the cork and face paint, a national sensation in the 1830s, doing a dance he lifted from a Negro in Cincinnati...-
By Neely Tucker