How to pronounce“minstrel”in English

Minstrel shows promoted a racist image of African-Americans as childish, dim, and lazy.

Minstrels performed along with folk music on violins and banjos.

of minstrel robots who had this annoying black sort of almost gay voice or something.

In minstrel shows in the mid to late 1800s, white actors would use black grease paint on their faces to depict black people on stage.

his minstrel's Hall was meant to be a tribute to the age of chivalry more of a hideaway than all his castles and palaces and reachable only

The minstrel show was a wildly popular and deeply racist nineteenth-century genre created by white Americans.

Though minstrel shows waned in popularity in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, the minstrel tradition continued—in literature, on Broadway, in silent film, in not-so-silent