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An example of the fascination in American culture with racial boundaries and the color line is demonstrated in the popular duo Amos ' n ' Andy, characters played by two white men who performed the show in blackface.

They gradually stripped off the blackface makeup during live 1929 performances while continuing to talk in dialect.

This fascination with color boundaries had been well-established since the beginning of the century, as it also had been before the Civil War.