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... This chapter explores the role that cartoon minstrels played in the transition to sound in American commercial cinema. As a part of live extravaganzas staged with silent films in the 1920s or in the sing-along cartoons of the Fleischer studios, animation formed a bridge between the worlds...

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... This chapter makes the case that continuing cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, and Betty Boop’s sidekick Bimbo are integral figures in an ongoing history of blackface minstrelsy in the United States. It illustrates this continuity by contrasting the rise of cartoon minstrels...

... This chapteroffers a detailed and careful analysis of how animation demonstrates the historical specificity, the continuities and discontinuities in racial formations. The transition to sound was ushered in by jazz music and jazz cartoons: fantastic representations of the imagined realms...

... into interchangeable workers on cartoon assembly lines. The animation industry worked to subsume the idiosyncratic practices of individual artists into the rationalized processes of the assembly line, providing the fuel for the ongoing conflict between the performing animator and the cartoon minstrel. Not only did...

... This chapter uses political cartoons and ethnographic interviews to document the racialized depiction of Indian IT workers. These sources show the multifaceted nature of the discussion of race in public. Indian programmers are ambivalent subjects between Turkish guest workers and Afro-German...

...Encoding Race This chapter uses political cartoons and ethnographic interviews to document the racialized depiction of Indian IT workers. These sources show the multifaceted nature of the discussion of race in public. Indian programmers are ambivalent subjects between Turkish guest workers...

... that was one of the hallmarks of the vaudeville stage. As early animation producers developed cartoons from an attraction into an industry, they chose as a fundamental performative trope the gently antagonistic relationship between minstrelsy’s interlocutor and the blackface minstrel, transposing...