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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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      8. During rise of animation industry, particularly 1940s, Southern California experienced black migration from South.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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      9. Blackface/minstrelsy then can be seen as Disney & Co.'s attempt to square the circle: to have something that is both nostalgic & modern.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014

      10. Role of nostalgia in racism is under-analyzed I think. Minstrelsy made racism seem homey, familiar comfortable, a tried-and-true gag

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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          11. By this analysis, the blackface/minstrelsy in these cartoons not just something they inherited by a response to new urban culture.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2014
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          12. By recasting familiar blackface in new sleek modern form of Mickey Mouse, Disney was responding to & containing new urban black culture

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