| Yet this wasted wandering minstrel has all the emotional wow of a Waits or a Springsteen in his prime. |
| It's similar to young boys playing female parts in Shakespearean times or white actors being asked to black up for minstrel shows. |
| The characters are drawn like minstrel show performers, including huge white lips. |
| How white performers acquired the knowledge and skills to imitate blacks on the minstrel stage is less apparent, though some information exists. |
| Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites. |
| The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface. |
