Good conversation in response to this tweet about how American minstrel imagery had a long after-life in French comics (decades after such imagery had ceased to be pervasive in American cartooning. I had the same experience as Adam of being shocked as kid by this stuff.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1301176652496502791 …
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Indeed. A few years ago in Italy, I had dinner out with a dozen or so US and Italian colleagues. The coffee arrived with sugar packets labeled “Sambo” with a Little Black Sambo face. I was the only black person there and all eyes slid to me. I asked for green tea, no sugar.
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