Minstrelsy’s conventions persist in institutions long after blackface declined

Evidence

We’ve been rid of blackface minstrelsy for more than a century—well, we’ve had much less of it; let’s put it that way. But its tastes and insinuations, its gamesmanship and manipulations are still with us, coursing through institutions, still threatening to bring the house down, still stuffing Black artists in Black boxes. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1132

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘institutions carry the past’ claim parallels the book’s thesis that America’s institutions were built on slavery and still carry its architecture.