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 cartoons themselves, and how important blackface
minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of
animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse
and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface
minstrelsy's visual and performative conventions: these characters are
not like minstrels; they are minstrels.
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