"It was an homage to the minstrelsy of my childhood."
Preparing to teach the May Irwin Kiss and I still can't get over Allyson Field's findings in her fantastic article "The Cinema of Racialized Attraction(s)." Specifically, she reveals that Irwin was a well-known minstrelsy performer and that viewers at the time would have read her character as Black.
YouTube video by Library of Congress
Every time some debate over word usage comes up, I’m tempted to lob the “the modern definition of “fun” originates from its primary and decades-long association with blackface minstrelsy” grenade in its direction. For, you know, fun.
Every time some debate over word usage comes up, I’m tempted to lob the “the modern definition of “fun” originates from its primary and decades-long association with blackface minstrelsy” grenade in its direction. For, you know, fun.
I lasted maybe 20 minutes in the movie theater. Horrified by Olivier’s racialized prosthetics and West Indian minstrelsy, I fled into the night, angry that anyone could speak reverently about such a repugnant performance.' www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
A professor's recent showing of Laurence Olivier's offensive "Othello" prompts a heated — and necessary — conversation.
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