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Topic: Ethnic Caricature

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The comic presentation of a character that exaggerates or ridicules appearance, behavior, speech, or other aspects of the character’s racial or ethnic group; a dehumanizing stereotype; reduces a person to a joke; perhaps funny when we don’t take it seriously (“how many viola players does it take to change a lightbulb…”), but sometimes embarrassing and even painful; be aware that sometimes such caricature is intended as sarcasm.

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  1. Themes and Topics Steven Gerber

Contents of this tag:

  1. Research Project: Jewish Assimilation
  2. Summary: Estrangement [Mikado]
  3. Summary: Minstrel Misrule
  4. Summary: "Tom" Shows
  5. Summary: Capitalism and Colonialism [Utopia]
  6. Summary: Dixie Carmen
  7. Summary: Jewish Identity
  8. Research Project: Minstrel Shows
  9. Research Project: Forgotten Carmen Jones
  10. Summary: Cotton's Jesters
  11. Summary: Cockney Replicant
  12. Summary: Black Mikados