Construct a well-informed and well-written essay (500-1200words) that briefly describes the original minstrel show and the controversies that surrounded it then, and now.

Construct a well-informed and well-written essay (500-1200words) that briefly describes the original minstrel show and the controversies that surrounded it then, and now. You must draw intelligently on and cite at least two of the below resources. RESOURCES

• http://black-face.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show
• https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/links/essays/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpAiYoXnd2Y
• https://youtu.be/kiRSDOBmbx8 – [Warning: contains many expletives, including lots of F and N words]
• Lhamon Jr., W.T. “Ebery Time I Wheel About I Jump Jim Crow: Cycles of Minstrel Transgression from Cool White to Vanilla Ice.” Inside the Minstrel Mask, edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. hatch, Brooks McNamara. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
• Lott, Eric. “Love and Theft: The Racial Unconscious of Blackface Minstrelsy.” Representations, No. 39 (Summer, 1992), pp. 23-50