“I think it was in poor taste that you were doing Murtaugh in whiteface” – Blackface goes West (and White) in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX, 2005-)

As many academics have shown, blackface minstrelsy is a distorted view of the South developed mainly in the North of the United States. To contradict the notion that the blackface tradition can exclusively travel following a South/North axis, this article considers ho...

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Main Author: Sébastien Lefait
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines 2018-07-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/9491