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• What are the ironies in naming Harlem's most popular nightclub the "Cotton Club"?

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The club featured black performers as glamorous and good looking, but black patrons were not allowed inside. Also, the theme of the club is "nostalgia for the antebellum South" and the backdrop was set to look like a cotton plantation.
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