4 days ago | By Open Space
Blackface killed the silent movie. That is to say, Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer (1927), the first feature-length movie with a synchronized music score and singing and speaking, ushered in the ascendance of the talking picture. I feel a contemptuous pity for people straitjacketed by whiteness: people whose only conception of kinship and love and joy and power is permanently affixed to the necrotic rot of white supremacy. The kind of popularity blackface and minstrel shows enjoyed demands an armchair diagnosis. It's the same pathology embodied by images of the very lynchings that were...
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