Sentences with phrase «racist caricatures of»

The large eyes and thick lips of both creatures allude to racist caricatures of blacks, underscoring the link between cartoons and this country's deeply imbedded racism — a subject that Joyce Pensato also explores.

If you can get past the association with that noxious Deep Blue Something song and the sight of Mickey Rooney playing a racist caricature of a Chinese man, you're almost certain to be captivated by Audrey Hepburn's indelible incarnation of Holly Golightly.

Not exact matches

But Soeiro also criticized the First Lady's choice of literature, calling Dr. Seuss «a bit of a cliche» and arguing that the late author's illustrations are «steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.»

Yet I parlayed my love of the 1990s Atlanta Braves into T. Hawk's Native American caricature, because I guess 12 - year - old me was a country club racist.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

What's more, the jokes made courtesy of ultra - sexist / racist caricatures actually go further than being witty and insightful comments about our multicultural society, and in fact come right back around to being sexist and racist.

Rockwell as Dixon, Willoughby's deputy who is a racist, a homophobe, an ignoramus, and a cop who lives with his domineering mother, is almost a caricature, surviving it only because of Rockwell's astonishing performance.

President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) is given predictably surface - level treatment as a self - serving suit, while Alabama governor George Wallace (Tim Roth) is little more than a caricature of a racist.

Comics Johan Palme talks to Nathan Hamelberg of The Betweenship Group about the continuing controversy over a Swedish library's decision to re-shelve some Tintin comics because of racist caricatures...

As a Mexican myself, I quite enjoyed Guacamelee and I never perceived the caricatures of the characters or jokes said to be racist at all, or offending for that matter.

In this appropriation of a flagrantly racist caricature from America's vaudevillian past, Thomas highlights the entertainment value of a vaudeville performer; however, Biggers» minstrel is not presented in the act of performing, rather he is captured in a moment of reflection.