Dr. Cheryl Thompson is an assistant professor at Ryerson University’s School of Creative Industries, and the author of Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. She’s currently working on a new project about the history of blackface in Canada, and joins Jesse to tell us about her research.

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