The Minstrel ShowAngela Davis November 2015, Pepino 38,5 x 34 x cm Plastic figure i Conguitos (little Congolese) is a Spanish brand of chocolate covered peanuts. The toy is an official Conguito product. A current promotion of the company offers a possibility to personalize the text the figure is holding. I orderer them with the names of the most famous defenders of the civil rights of African and Afro-American people. The minstrel show was an American form of entertainment developed in the 19th century of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the U.S. Civil War, by black people. Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious and happy-go-lucky. Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Tags: Conguitos, racism, Spain 4 / 7