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Emily Bingham

Emily Bingham
EMILY BINGHAM is the author of Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham and Mordecai: An Early American Family. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo by Jon Cherry.


Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

“It was from the outset a blackface minstrel tune, entertainment built on slavery and the trade in human beings.”
May 16, 2022  By Emily Bingham
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Lyrical Black Face: The Truth About “My Old Kentucky Home”

Emily Bingham on the Racist History of a Beloved American Song
May 9, 2022  By Emily Bingham
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