Sentence examples for a negro performer from inspiring English sources

A Negro performer does a primitive fire dance.

The fact that imitation soon turned to exaggeration and then to grotesquerie, as minstrel shows became insidiously jaunty arguments in support of slavery and eventually of Jim Crow (the term itself derives from a minstrel character), was given a further grim twist when aspiring Negro performers took to mimicking the whites who were caricaturing them.

Talk story about B.B. King and Carla Thomas, two negro performers, who opened at the Royal Box of the Hotel Americana last week.

If you really want to be the decent guy you pretend to be, you'll offer opportunities to talented Negro performers, just as you do to whites".

The New Yorker, June 13 , 1970 P. 25Talk story about B.B. King and Carla Thomas, two negro performers, who opened at the Royal Box of the Hotel Americana last week.

By George W. S. Trow The New Yorker, June 13 , 1970 P. 25Talk story about B.B. King and Carla Thomas, two negro performers, who opened at the Royal Box of the Hotel Americana last week.

One is a Negro couple.

A Negro named James Milteer started Contact.

But a Negro don't know he's a Negro.

I wanted to prevent myself from becoming merely a Negro; or, even, merely a Negro writer.

I was a Negro above all else, and Negroes plays their part, too: Hiding.