The BBC's Kentucky Minstrels, 1933-1950 : blackface entertainment on British radio
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Pickering, Michael
The BBC's Kentucky Minstrels, 1933-1950 : blackface entertainment on British radio / Michael Pickering - Oxford : Journals Oxford, 1996. - ill.
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This work contains material that readers may find offensive. The show was an exaggerated depiction of African Americans in the "good ole days" of plantation life in the U. S. South (Kentucky), accentuated with the use of stereotype racist and sexist humor. This article tackles the questions of racism and sexism in popular humour. The cultural transmission of prejudice in comic discourse and the analytical difficulties of dealing with offensive values within such discourse.
Original publication: Historical journal of film, radio and television, Vol. 16, part 2, 1996,
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