1999, Behind the Burnt Cork
Mahar, William. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Book Reviews:
Lhamon, W.T. "Core is Less." Reviews in American History 27.4 (199): 566-71.
Bean, Annemarie. Theatre Journal 52.1 (2000): 146-7.
Barlow, William. The Journal of Southern History 67.2 (2001): 56-7.