AAS 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fetishism
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Plato: have to kill off artists and intellectuals because they give you the freedom to imagine what life could be like outside of the government. It takes considerably longer to remove blackface than you can imagine. Takes significantly longer to remove the stain of blackface because blackface embarasses the black community and that can"t just go away. Eric lott"s love & theft: the racial unconscious of blackface minstrelsy . 1st public acknowledgement of a blakc culture by white people. 1st form of pop culture that is uniquely american-style. Make us think about as more than just the ridiculed black culture. Minstrel show pretended that slavery was amusing and natural. Was not simply on attack on black culture but a repression on white male erotica which allowed them to act as black bodies and to be able to desire to be black and a woman in queer ways. >dressed up and played in black mens body.
