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American Studies 235

Homework 5 Ethnic Notions (Try to hand in by 3/3)

Watch Marlon Riggs’ documentary Ethnic Notions (available through our library at

Then respond to this prompt.

In this documentary, Marlon Riggs invites us to to think about racist caricature—from the heyday of Blackface minstrels in the 1840s, through television sitcoms of the 20th century—has been central to the production and circulation of American popular culture.

If you had to update the central arguments of the film for the 21st century, what are some texts you might include? Controversies you might explore? Artists you might consider? New cultural forms you might investigate? Write a paragraph below in which you try to consider at least some of these questions?

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