as in poetry
writing that uses rhythm, vivid language, and often rhyme to provoke an emotional response
the traditional forms of German minstrelsy
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Recent Examples of minstrelsy
And those fans, like him, dismissed the notion that the team’s on-court antics crossed the line from comedy to minstrelsy, as many critics had opined over the years.
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David Aldridge, The Athletic, 11 Feb. 2025
Henry counted among her influences American minstrelsy, European clowning traditions, and her own collection of African masks.
—News Desk, Artforum, 22 Oct. 2024
Characters like Felix and Oswald have kind of an unfortunate connection to theater insofar as they’re associated with blackface minstrelsy—the notoriously racist form of stage performance where actors would blacken their faces, wear white gloves, and perform clownish antics.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Blackface minstrelsy took hold in New York City in the 1830s and became popular among post-Civil War whites, though it was regarded as offensive to Black people from the beginning of its use.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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David Aldridge, The Athletic, 11 Feb. 2025
Henry counted among her influences American minstrelsy, European clowning traditions, and her own collection of African masks.
—News Desk, Artforum, 22 Oct. 2024
Characters like Felix and Oswald have kind of an unfortunate connection to theater insofar as they’re associated with blackface minstrelsy—the notoriously racist form of stage performance where actors would blacken their faces, wear white gloves, and perform clownish antics.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Blackface minstrelsy took hold in New York City in the 1830s and became popular among post-Civil War whites, though it was regarded as offensive to Black people from the beginning of its use.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minstrelsy
poetry
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The Pittsburgh Pirates’ right fielder was poetry on the diamond, a five-tool player who helped his team to two World Series championships but amazingly was a bit underrated at the time.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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