1. Let's talk a bit about the blackface & minstrelsy in old cartoon's like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw06K0dG1Zw …
3. Aside from Disney blackface/minstrelsy pervasive in early cartoons like Bob Clampett's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
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4. And of course as Updike & others have pointed out, characters like Mickey Mouse profoundly rooted in minstrelsy:http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/felix-the-cat-blackface/ …
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5. Simplest explanation for all this is cartoons rooted in vaudeville & popular theater, where blackface was pervasive.
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