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Originally Posted by HarryT
Golliwogs were clearly based on "black-faced minstrels", which were a popular form of entertainment in Britain going back at least as far as the mid 19th century. When I was a teenager, one of the most popular forms of entertainment of Saturday night TV was a programme called "The Black and White Minstrel Show". Today it would be considered monstrously racist, but Britain wasn't a multi-cultural society back then as it is today, and attitudes towards such things were completely different.
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Indeed, I remember my grandmother used to love watching the
The Black and White Minstrel Show (on Black & White TV, in Britain), which included whites who were blacked-up, behaving in a stereotypical manner.
The
minstrel show "... was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface."
Fortunately, some of us now live in a
somewhat more enlightened age - I hesitantly venture to suggest.
I wonder how many people here have ever watched
Planet of the Apes (1968 film), in which apes were the dominant species and humans were subjected to slavery.