Hypothetically SoundBirth of a Nation (1915) wasn’t just a film—it was racist propaganda. It glorified the KKK, used blackface, & spread violent tropes. Hollywood was built on this. #BannedHistory #RacistCinema #Minstrelsy #UnlearningMedia
Minstrel shows created racist stock characters: Jim Crow, Mammy, Zip Coon, Sambo. These tropes still show up today — think “Mammy” in old Tom & Jerry or the “sassy Black friend” on TV. Different names, same harm. #BannedHistory #Minstrelsy #RacistTropes #UnlearningMedia
Before Hollywood, there were minstrel shows — white performers in blackface mocking Black people for laughs. These acts shaped U.S. entertainment & spread racist stereotypes still seen today. #Minstrelsy #BannedHistory #RacismInEntertainment #UnlearningAmerica
That catchy ice cream truck jingle? It’s “Turkey in the Straw,” a 19th-c minstrel tune. In the early 1900s, it was paired with racist lyrics like “N****r Love a Watermelon.” This wasn’t background music — it was a tool of mockery. The melody stuck, even as the lyrics faded. #BannedHistory #RacismInEntertainment #Minstrelsy #HiddenAmerica
🦉Nýktıméηı ❌👑When I was a child in the late 50s through early 60s, "I'm not racist!", white people still claimed we were too sensitive if we reacted to racist remarks and their collecting racist memorabilia from pickaninny dolls, salt and pepper shakers, piggy banks to celebratory lynching postcards with smiling white families dressed in their Sunday best beside the hanging body were also NOT racist.
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
GoldFro aka Scrapple Roan
@goldfro.bsky.social
#BlackMastodon #RacialHierarchy #Blackface #Minstrelsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_jVFslcsA
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
GoldFro aka Scrapple Roan
@goldfro.bsky.social
#BlackMastodon #RacialHierarchy #Blackface #Minstrelsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_jVFslcsA
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
Rest In Paradise#NormanLear's TV shows pioneered depictions of Black families, but it's complicated
#legacy #tv #stereotypes #whitegaze #whitesupremacy #ericmonte #bigotry #minstrelsy #dynomite #obits #obituaries #restinparadise
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayWatching David Harewood's documentary on #Minstrelsy & #Blackface contained the (oddly) shocking seldom seen footage of Judy Garland, Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire in blackface.... now edited out when the respective films are shown....
fascinating stuff....
sazatorÂşıklık (#minstrelsy) tradition of Turkey is performed by wandering poet-singers known as âşıks.
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/klk-minstrelsy-tradition-00179
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/klk-minstrelsy-tradition-00179
UNESCO - Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition
The Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition of Turkey is performed by wandering poet-singers known as âşıks. Dressed in traditional clothes and plucking a stringed saz, the âşık is a common performer at weddings, in coffeehouses and during public festivals of all sorts. The âşık is called in a dream to undertake a long apprenticeship in the arts of playing string and percussion instruments, si...
Aram SinnreichFellow academics:
Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).
I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.
Philip McEvoy#introduction time.
I'm a writer of books living in Dundee, also writing copy for brands in Paris. Currently editing a can of worms that intertwines music, race, African American history, white supremacy, Confederate memory, you name it. Originally from Sydney, Australia, came to Scotland via years in Kent, Hampshire, and Paris.
Love equality, fed up with the Tories. Let's follow each other.
#history #biography #music #race #CivilWar #JimCrow #ConfederateMonuments #minstrelsy #slavery