For most of American theatre history whites wearing heavy "ethnic" makeup acted as African Americans, Native Americans, and Asians. This lead to a now discontinued form of theatre in which white people played black people. What name was given to this form of theatre?

Minstrel Show

Explanation:

The Minstrel Show was a 19th-century theater format in which white artists played black people. Interpretations were pejorative, where blacks were interpreted as ignorant, lazy, and comic people. It is noteworthy that these shows took place in the context of the American civil war, where there was still slave culture.