Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation by Nicholas Sammond

Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Nicholas Sammond

400 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoo...

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