[fgoodwin]

BLACK LIKE YOU: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture.
By John Strausbaugh.
Illustrated. 370 pp. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. $24.95.

[Doctor Raoul]

But then again there's Bob Herbert running around the Times in whiteface...

[weegee]

I think I saw a scene of modern (and not ironic) blackface in a British movie with a scene SET in a British television studio from 1961.

So to all FReepers, are any familiar with NON-American presentation of blackface, and if so, when did it die out elsewhere?

In a sort of related topic, Disney had no problems with releasing Song of the South in Japan, China, and Europe throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It is only in America that the film disappear from release to theaters or video (there are a number of now out of print foreign video releases that were all legit).

[weegee]

"The swastika, the 'N-word' and blackface, because of their special historical significance, are the ne plus ultra of hate speech,"

The swastika was a widely used "good luck" symbol in Americana (team logos, postcards, floor inlay) before Hitler's crew perverted it.

MEANWHILE, Che, Red Stars, Communism, and even Joe Stalin are okay in the hearts and minds of Americans. 100 million killed under Communism is no big whoop.