The Creolization of American CultureThe Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (18071868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician