Border Morris
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Border Morris is a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales–England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. They are part
Border morris dancers, White Ladies Aston
Silurian Border Morris Men, Church Lane, Ledbury, Boxing Day 1996
Widders with short sticks
The Shropshire Bedlams at Towersey Festival, 1980
Blackface
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Blackface is the practice of performers of any race or ethnicity, usually white people, using burned cork, shoe polish, or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people, e.g. African Ameri
Border Morris
…1969, and later the Not For Joes) and Keith Francis (of Silurian Morris) a distinctive border morris style has grown. The tradition is characterised by black faces, tattered shirts or coats, much stick-clashing and a big band traditionally comprising melodeons, fiddles, concertinas, triangles and tambourines…
This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, shows the transformation from a person of European descent to a caricature of a dark-skinned person of African descent.
FLIT advertisement by Dr. Seuss depicting blackface-styled caricatures of Black people
The white American actor John McCullough as Othello, 1878
Carrie Swain in blackface as Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin.