Dandy stereotypes
Date
1882, 1950, undated
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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Portrayals of Black men wearing particularly fancy, sometimes outlandish, clothes. A specific type of dandy, included here, was the "Zip Coon" minstrel character, whose comedy was derived from failed attempts to imitate upper class white culture. The "Zip Coon" character was an urban counterpart to the "Jim Crow" character.
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GRA 0148, Gregory C. Wilson collection of postcards and trade cards depicting stereotypes of African Americans, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.