How has race been represented in animation throughout the 20th century?
Content warning and disclaimer:
Racist slurs and stereotypes will be depicted and mentioned throughout many posts in this blog. The intention of this blog is to discuss racism in animation in an open and honest way, without censoring controversial information.
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Race in Modern Adult Animation: South Park’s Hyper-Irony
Adult animations, following Ralph Bakshi’s example, continued to include sex, violence, and racist imagery from the 90s onwards. While, for the most part, racism has been toned down in animation, several prominent shows continue with it for satiric purposes, such as South Park. South Park is a commentary on modern life which deliberately uses grotesque… Read more
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The Move from Television to Internet: Post-race Ideologies in Animation
Society, in the past thirty years, has altogether moved towards an ideology of colour-blindness. Both in animation and American society, it is the dominant racial ideology in the US and justifies continued white advantage by stating simply that race no longer ‘matters’ as now we have a black middle class which [does not] mean that… Read more
Animation, Race and Progress 