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EPISODE · May 7, 2026 · 13 MIN

Rhae Lynn Barnes - Blackface - Evening WURDs 5.7.26

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Rhae Lynn Barnes is the Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University, Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and co-founder of the history education website: ushistoryscene.com. She joined Dr. Peterson to discuss her new book: “Darkology: Blackface and the American way of Entertainment”, a groundbreaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially for nearly two centuries.

Rhae Lynn Barnes is the Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University, Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and co-founder of the history education website: ushistoryscene.com. She joined Dr. Peterson to discuss her new book: “Darkology: Blackface and the American way of Entertainment”, a groundbreaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially for nearly two centuries.

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