I mean let’s be real minstrel shows are explicitly a western concept. Go down another comment and I addressed the UK as well, but really that’s going to apply anywhere Americans were during WW2 as well.
I mean let’s be real minstrel shows are explicitly a western concept. Go down another comment and I addressed the UK as well, but really that’s going to apply anywhere Americans were during WW2 as well.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The whole idea of minstrel shows was to mock africans. Seeing a white guy in blackface is not equivalent to seeing a black person.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What the fuck are you talking about?
My whole point was by 1950 most white people had seen a black person and that their only idea wasn’t a minstrel show
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What makes you think “most white people” in Europe had seen a real black person in 1950?
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Idk maybe all the black Americans actively fighting in some of Europe’s most populous countries and the following American presence after the war.
And that’s ignoring the interactions between European nations and their African colonies. I’ll ignore the human zoos as well