1. Let's talk a bit about the blackface & minstrelsy in old cartoon's like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw06K0dG1Zw …
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2. What we're talking about: Disney's Song of the South, black crows in Dumbo, Mickey Mouse performing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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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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6.But beyond vaudeville roots, important to realize position of animators like Disney as nostalgic techno-modernists to understand blackface
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7. Disney was both on cutting edge of technology (animation!) and nostalgic for the warmth/security/familiarity of small town America.
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8. During rise of animation industry, particularly 1940s, Southern California experienced black migration from South.
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8. The black culture that animators encountered in 1930s/1940s had the very mixture Disney was interested in: rural roots but modern.
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