Behind the blackface.(Letter to the Editor)
American Theatre, April, 2004 by Krasner, David
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I applaud Shauneille Perry's review of Jump Jim Crow. Nineteenth-century white actors in blackface did indeed steal from black culture and turned what they stole into caricatures through racist inferences. Nor was Thomas Dart-mouth (T.D. Daddy) Rice, as Lhamon has suggested, an innocent actor performing his role.
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In a letter to "Johanna," dated Feb. 4, 1838, and located in the Harvard Theatre Collection, Rice inveighed against Northerners, whom he called "God-damn fanatical Mawworms," and declared that ...
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