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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-05-15 06:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #2690 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2690 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movie]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Reginald Barclay]


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[Dark Souls]


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[Call the Midwife]


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[The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim]


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[The Thing. Inception. EverymanHYBRID. Adventure Time]


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Re: Question

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2014-05-16 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
So on the one hand you have an entertainment genre that was as popular and as pervasive as the romantic comedy for over a century, largely written and produced by white showmen. The genre was so pervasive that multiple black performers were forced to do blackface just to get on the stage or in the door in Hollywood, followed by typecasting into derivative roles until the second half of the 20th century.

And on the other hand, you have an underground culture that was illegal in most states, and explicitly banned from the New York stage following Mae West's play The Drag (the performance of which got her a night in jail for obsenity charges, where she supposedly dined on steak with the Chief of Police.) This was the case right up to the Stonewall Riots.

While there's a lot of things to criticize about drag culture, it's never been on the same political footing as minstrel shows in American Culture.

Re: Question

(Anonymous) 2014-05-16 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
This x1000.

It's really almost impossible to overestimate how influential minstrelry has been on US pop culture.