7. John Updike in his essay collection More Matter had some good thoughts on the blackness of Mickey Mouse.pic.twitter.com/j6loYQV83i
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7. John Updike in his essay collection More Matter had some good thoughts on the blackness of Mickey Mouse.pic.twitter.com/j6loYQV83i
8. Disney was much influenced by George Herriman, a light-skinned African American who passed for white & did racial allegories in Krazy Kat
9. The most recent (and somewhat shaky) example of this tradition is Zootopia, which is allegory for contemporary racism & police violence.
10. The business of the frogs is interesting because there is a kind of tradition in American popular culture of seeing frogs as black.
11. "When Froggie Goes A-Courtin'" is an ancient ballad but seems to often been performed in minstrel show voices.
12. I think Jim Henson was aware of tradition, since Kermit's signature song ("it's Not Easy Being Green") is about race-consciousness.
Jeet Heer Retweeted
13. Yep, the great Warner Bros. short "One Froggy Evening" is about black musicians escaping exploitation by whites. https://twitter.com/voxkev/status/782812114775740416 …
Jeet Heer added,
14. And of course the recent Disney movie The Princess and the Frog is a riff on this tradition as well.
15. Aside from George Herriman, the artist who most consciously used cartoon animals to explore racism is Art Spiegelman, in "Maus"
Crumb's crows owe something to the crows in Disney's Dumbo, right?
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