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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
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Animation, Race and Progress 