Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999
Despite Shakespeare’s rejection of comic, racist stereotypes in Othello, minstrel shows offered racist blackface caricatures of slaves and others of African descent that filtered through British Music Hall and Variety to television sketch comedy. Analyses of twenty-five screened appropriations of O...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2022-04-01
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Despite Shakespeare’s rejection of comic, racist stereotypes in Othello, minstrel shows offered racist blackface caricatures of slaves and others of African descent that filtered through British Music Hall and Variety to television sketch comedy. Analyses of twenty-five screened appropriations of Othello provide a cultural history of racism for 1967-1999. The article recovers an antiracist tradition overlooked in comedy studies.
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c852ccc7d5945fcbe53e9e498f4f4d42022-12-22T02:39:24ZengCracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language StudiesThe European Journal of Humour Research2307-700X2022-04-0110110.7592/EJHR2022.10.1.596Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999Stephen Hamrick0Bemidji State University Despite Shakespeare’s rejection of comic, racist stereotypes in Othello, minstrel shows offered racist blackface caricatures of slaves and others of African descent that filtered through British Music Hall and Variety to television sketch comedy. Analyses of twenty-five screened appropriations of Othello provide a cultural history of racism for 1967-1999. The article recovers an antiracist tradition overlooked in comedy studies. https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/596racismsketch comedyFrankie HowerdShakespeareOthello |
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| title | Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999 |
| title_full | Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999 |
| title_fullStr | Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999 |
| title_short | Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999 |
| title_sort | antiracism in othello sketch comedy 1967 1999 |
| topic | racism sketch comedy Frankie Howerd Shakespeare Othello |
| url | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/596 |
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