VCC390H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ben Katchor, Louis Althusser, Art Spiegelman
Document Summary
Race and class in the early american comic strips: afternoon contemplation, racist figures in comics, dennis the menace stereotypical african american, speedy gonzales racially reductive portrayals of mexicans, mickey mouse as african (possibly slave white gloves) Comics and race: comics have bad history of being racist. Jews were caricaturized as greedy with stereotypical features including a large nose: ex. Mr. burns from the simpsons: early 1900s, much humour in comics is derived from insulting racial minorities, particularly irish and african americans, not so politically correct. Immigration tensions: new york productions, post-civil war anxiety, 1861-1865, (cid:272)orsese"s (cid:862)ga(cid:374)gs of ne(cid:449) york(cid:863) Influx of irish immigrants: great potato famine of 1845-1852, opportunity for soldiers during civil war. Luke cage cover: white police beating up black man, hyper- sexualized black woman at bar: depicting different races is racist for use of stereotypes and reductive features, but not clearly depicting differences assumes everyone is white (whitewashing)
