#minstrelsy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #minstrelsy, aggregated by home.social.
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“Ever heard of the Savannah Bananas? They're a baseball team with millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram — known as much for their dance routines and shenanigans as their actual baseball. Now their league, Banana Ball, has resurrected the Indianapolis Clowns, a Negro League team with a contentious history of racial minstrelsy. We chop it up with journalist Josh Levin, who followed the Clowns through their Banana Ball debut.” #Baseball #race #NegroLeague #Minstrelsy
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5814745/what-the-savannah-bananas-have-to-do-with-race-and-baseball -
“Ever heard of the Savannah Bananas? They're a baseball team with millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram — known as much for their dance routines and shenanigans as their actual baseball. Now their league, Banana Ball, has resurrected the Indianapolis Clowns, a Negro League team with a contentious history of racial minstrelsy. We chop it up with journalist Josh Levin, who followed the Clowns through their Banana Ball debut.” #Baseball #race #NegroLeague #Minstrelsy
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5814745/what-the-savannah-bananas-have-to-do-with-race-and-baseball -
“Ever heard of the Savannah Bananas? They're a baseball team with millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram — known as much for their dance routines and shenanigans as their actual baseball. Now their league, Banana Ball, has resurrected the Indianapolis Clowns, a Negro League team with a contentious history of racial minstrelsy. We chop it up with journalist Josh Levin, who followed the Clowns through their Banana Ball debut.” #Baseball #race #NegroLeague #Minstrelsy
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5814745/what-the-savannah-bananas-have-to-do-with-race-and-baseball -
“Ever heard of the Savannah Bananas? They're a baseball team with millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram — known as much for their dance routines and shenanigans as their actual baseball. Now their league, Banana Ball, has resurrected the Indianapolis Clowns, a Negro League team with a contentious history of racial minstrelsy. We chop it up with journalist Josh Levin, who followed the Clowns through their Banana Ball debut.” #Baseball #race #NegroLeague #Minstrelsy
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5814745/what-the-savannah-bananas-have-to-do-with-race-and-baseball -
“Ever heard of the Savannah Bananas? They're a baseball team with millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram — known as much for their dance routines and shenanigans as their actual baseball. Now their league, Banana Ball, has resurrected the Indianapolis Clowns, a Negro League team with a contentious history of racial minstrelsy. We chop it up with journalist Josh Levin, who followed the Clowns through their Banana Ball debut.” #Baseball #race #NegroLeague #Minstrelsy
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5814745/what-the-savannah-bananas-have-to-do-with-race-and-baseball -
Birth of a Nation (1915) wasn’t just a film—it was racist propaganda. It glorified the KKK, used blackface, & spread violent tropes. Hollywood was built on this. #BannedHistory #RacistCinema #Minstrelsy #UnlearningMedia
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Birth of a Nation (1915) wasn’t just a film—it was racist propaganda. It glorified the KKK, used blackface, & spread violent tropes. Hollywood was built on this. #BannedHistory #RacistCinema #Minstrelsy #UnlearningMedia
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Minstrel shows created racist stock characters: Jim Crow, Mammy, Zip Coon, Sambo. These tropes still show up today — think “Mammy” in old Tom & Jerry or the “sassy Black friend” on TV. Different names, same harm. #BannedHistory #Minstrelsy #RacistTropes #UnlearningMedia
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Minstrel shows created racist stock characters: Jim Crow, Mammy, Zip Coon, Sambo. These tropes still show up today — think “Mammy” in old Tom & Jerry or the “sassy Black friend” on TV. Different names, same harm. #BannedHistory #Minstrelsy #RacistTropes #UnlearningMedia
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Before Hollywood, there were minstrel shows — white performers in blackface mocking Black people for laughs. These acts shaped U.S. entertainment & spread racist stereotypes still seen today. #Minstrelsy #BannedHistory #RacismInEntertainment #UnlearningAmerica
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Before Hollywood, there were minstrel shows — white performers in blackface mocking Black people for laughs. These acts shaped U.S. entertainment & spread racist stereotypes still seen today. #Minstrelsy #BannedHistory #RacismInEntertainment #UnlearningAmerica
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That catchy ice cream truck jingle? It’s “Turkey in the Straw,” a 19th-c minstrel tune. In the early 1900s, it was paired with racist lyrics like “N****r Love a Watermelon.” This wasn’t background music — it was a tool of mockery. The melody stuck, even as the lyrics faded. #BannedHistory #RacismInEntertainment #Minstrelsy #HiddenAmerica
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That catchy ice cream truck jingle? It’s “Turkey in the Straw,” a 19th-c minstrel tune. In the early 1900s, it was paired with racist lyrics like “N****r Love a Watermelon.” This wasn’t background music — it was a tool of mockery. The melody stuck, even as the lyrics faded. #BannedHistory #RacismInEntertainment #Minstrelsy #HiddenAmerica
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When I was a child in the late 50s through early 60s, "I'm not racist!", white people still claimed we were too sensitive if we reacted to racist remarks and their collecting racist memorabilia from pickaninny dolls, salt and pepper shakers, piggy banks to celebratory lynching postcards with smiling white families dressed in their Sunday best beside the hanging body were also NOT racist.
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
GoldFro aka Scrapple Roan
@goldfro.bsky.social
#BlackMastodon #RacialHierarchy #Blackface #Minstrelsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_jVFslcsA -
When I was a child in the late 50s through early 60s, "I'm not racist!", white people still claimed we were too sensitive if we reacted to racist remarks and their collecting racist memorabilia from pickaninny dolls, salt and pepper shakers, piggy banks to celebratory lynching postcards with smiling white families dressed in their Sunday best beside the hanging body were also NOT racist.
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
GoldFro aka Scrapple Roan
@goldfro.bsky.social
#BlackMastodon #RacialHierarchy #Blackface #Minstrelsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_jVFslcsA -
When I was a child in the late 50s through early 60s, "I'm not racist!", white people still claimed we were too sensitive if we reacted to racist remarks and their collecting racist memorabilia from pickaninny dolls, salt and pepper shakers, piggy banks to celebratory lynching postcards with smiling white families dressed in their Sunday best beside the hanging body were also NOT racist.
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
GoldFro aka Scrapple Roan
@goldfro.bsky.social
#BlackMastodon #RacialHierarchy #Blackface #Minstrelsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_jVFslcsA -
When I was a child in the late 50s through early 60s, "I'm not racist!", white people still claimed we were too sensitive if we reacted to racist remarks and their collecting racist memorabilia from pickaninny dolls, salt and pepper shakers, piggy banks to celebratory lynching postcards with smiling white families dressed in their Sunday best beside the hanging body were also NOT racist.
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
GoldFro aka Scrapple Roan
@goldfro.bsky.social
#BlackMastodon #RacialHierarchy #Blackface #Minstrelsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_jVFslcsA -
When I was a child in the late 50s through early 60s, "I'm not racist!", white people still claimed we were too sensitive if we reacted to racist remarks and their collecting racist memorabilia from pickaninny dolls, salt and pepper shakers, piggy banks to celebratory lynching postcards with smiling white families dressed in their Sunday best beside the hanging body were also NOT racist.
The Ugliest Trope in Modern Horror
GoldFro aka Scrapple Roan
@goldfro.bsky.social
#BlackMastodon #RacialHierarchy #Blackface #Minstrelsy
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#NormanLear's TV shows pioneered depictions of Black families, but it's complicated
#legacy #tv #stereotypes #whitegaze #whitesupremacy #ericmonte #bigotry #minstrelsy #dynomite #obits #obituaries #restinparadise
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#NormanLear's TV shows pioneered depictions of Black families, but it's complicated
#legacy #tv #stereotypes #whitegaze #whitesupremacy #ericmonte #bigotry #minstrelsy #dynomite #obits #obituaries #restinparadise
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Watching David Harewood's documentary on #Minstrelsy & #Blackface contained the (oddly) shocking seldom seen footage of Judy Garland, Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire in blackface.... now edited out when the respective films are shown....
fascinating stuff....
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Watching David Harewood's documentary on #Minstrelsy & #Blackface contained the (oddly) shocking seldom seen footage of Judy Garland, Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire in blackface.... now edited out when the respective films are shown....
fascinating stuff....
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Watching David Harewood's documentary on #Minstrelsy & #Blackface contained the (oddly) shocking seldom seen footage of Judy Garland, Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire in blackface.... now edited out when the respective films are shown....
fascinating stuff....
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Watching David Harewood's documentary on #Minstrelsy & #Blackface contained the (oddly) shocking seldom seen footage of Judy Garland, Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire in blackface.... now edited out when the respective films are shown....
fascinating stuff....
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Fellow academics:
Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).
I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.
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Fellow academics:
Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).
I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.
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Fellow academics:
Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).
I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.
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Fellow academics:
Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).
I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.
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Fellow academics:
Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).
I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.