When did minstrel shows become unpopular? I really don't see what was so bad about them. There's nothing mean spirited about it. They look fun.
When did minstrel shows become unpopular? I really don't see what was so bad about them.
When did minstrel shows become unpopular? I really don't see what was so bad about them. There's nothing mean spirited about it. They look fun.
It was a kind of vaudeville / standup comedy. Wikipedia tells me they declined after the civil war (they were massively popular before that) but here's one from a WWII propaganda movie starring Ronald Reagan:
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So they were still around. What's odd is that there's another performance in the movie by actual black entertainers seperate from the minstrel show. It seemed like the art died competely after World War II. I imagine that black people grew uncomfortable with white people doing this stuff, but the themes about workin' on yee ol' plantation hee haaaaw and that's not what the post-war generation was interested in. It was time to get up to speed a little bit and build nuclear-powered washing machines for your gleaming suburban home.
pure soul
There's nothing wrong with them. They're imitating the spontaneous, happy-go-lucky nature of the Black. Some comedians made their career imitating children and playing off their naivete and lower intelligence. It's the same as that. Al Jolsen said doing blackface gave him a Black-like self-confidence because he naturally had stage fright.
Putting boot polish on your face and singing doesn't violate the non-aggression principle. It take anything from anyone that they once possessed.
when certain penpushers in academia and newspapers started feigning outrage on the part of blacks
Dilate
Blacks do get extremely upset at blackface. They even went after Japanese media for having characters that had the blackface look.
It's now somewhat rare to find black people in anime that still have the classic darky iconography or ultra stereotypical look, with the exception of that "Mammy" character from Promised Neverland, and the depiction of Superalloy Darkshine in One Punch Man's anime (the manga has him looking more realistic while also having the small eyes and full lips).
I was watching a video interviewing black people living in China, and they asked one about a minstrel performance on television, and she had nuanced views about it actually:
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Another odd thing is there were also black people in this performance along with this Chinese woman in blackface.
>black face when whites did it
>racist smsh
>black face when non whites do it
>well i guess its part of their culture
not really nuanced
also she keeps saying 'obama black' like that is an ethnicity lmao, she should just say mixed
I think "Obama black" might be a Chinese thing but I'm not sure. Like some Chinese lady on the street: "You look like Obama!"
watch the movie Bamboozled
They began to decline in popularity as real blacks got into show biz and music—why settle for blacked up whitey when you can have the real thing?— and slowly retreated to the fringes of entertainment, like medicine shows or skit night at fraternal lodges, though things like Amos ‘n Andy were very popular on radio and early television, even with black audiences. In some ways minstrelsy never left and so many characters and tropes in American comedy and cartoons are just funny animals or non blackface versions of minstrelsy, and of course there’s wiggers or the exaggerated behavior of blacks in entertainment. There’s a lot of academic work on this stuff that explains it better than I can.
>I really don't see what was so bad about them
What race are you?
If you're okay with drag shows parodying the entire female sex, you have to also be okay with blackface
They are still going on they just use actual black people now.
they lost popularity during ww1, but they appeared in the cinema occasionally and for whatever reason the bongs had a black and white minstrel show on the television in the 1970s
My dad says I'm not supposed to be on camera, it's haram.
They became unpopular due to the rise of vaudeville theatre and also radio and television. As blacks migrated away from the South during the Great Migration, the rural Southern plantation setting started to become outdated.
Me in Cub Scout minstrel show. Circa 1951.
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assuming youre not trolling, blackface is immoral because it's essentially treating another person's immutable attributes as a funny costume, which is demeaning.
this is compounded by the historical treatment of blacks in the USA...so you have an inherently demeaning thing which targets a historically mistreated group of people....it's a no-brainer that it's offensive
>blackface is immoral because it's essentially treating another person's immutable attributes as a funny costume, which is demeaning.
kind of like drag queens?