{"id":8783,"date":"2009-05-02T11:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2009-11-29T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:45:05","slug":"plane-dumb-another-vintage-cartoon-with-blackface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/02\/plane-dumb-another-vintage-cartoon-with-blackface\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Plane Dumb&#8221;: Another Vintage Cartoon With Blackface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this cartoon, titled &#8220;Plane Dumb&#8221; (1932),\u00a0Van Beuren&#8217;s Tom and Jerry put on black face in order to disguise themselves in Africa.\u00a0 Putting on black face affects their intelligence as they go from being smart to dumb. Idoicy ensues. The &#8220;natives&#8221; come out at the very end:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TiMpnCp8QbI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TiMpnCp8QbI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/stevewilsonblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve W.<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n<p>For more vintage racist cartoons, see these <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/07\/racism-in-disneys-fantasia\/\" target=\"_self\">clips from Fantasia<\/a>, these <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/18\/bugs-bunny-in-blackface\/\" target=\"_self\">Bugs Bunny stills<\/a>, this <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/03\/racist-reinterpretation-of-snow-white-by-warner-brothers-1943\/\" target=\"_self\">racist reinterpretation of Snow White<\/a>, and this <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/10\/racist-bugs-bunny-cartoon-caricatures-the-japanese\/\" target=\"_self\">Bugs Bunny cartoon that caricatures the Japanese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/27\/you-will-enjoy-this\/\" target=\"_self\">this one&#8217;s<\/a> just for fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this cartoon, titled &#8220;Plane Dumb&#8221; (1932),\u00a0Van Beuren&#8217;s Tom and Jerry put on black face in order to disguise themselves in Africa.\u00a0 Putting on black face affects their intelligence as they go from being smart to dumb. Idoicy ensues. The &#8220;natives&#8221; come out at the very end: Thanks to Steve W. for the link! For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,232,253,285,1760,307,23705],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-cultural-imperialismneocolonialism","tag-history","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-traveltourism","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17217,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions\/17217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}