TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pickering,Michael
TI  - The BBC's Kentucky Minstrels, 1933-1950:  : blackface entertainment on British radio
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Journals Oxford
KW  - England
KW  - Minstrel shows
KW  - Blackface
KW  - Sexism
KW  - Racism
KW  - Cultural history
KW  - Radio
N1  - Offprint; Original publication; Historical journal of film, radio and television; Vol. 16, part 2; 1996; p. 161-195
N2  - 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
ER  -