Faculty Publications

Publication Date

1-28-2019

Disciplines

Cultural History | Film and Media Studies | Inequality and Stratification | Music | Race and Ethnicity | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Social History

Abstract

In this piece originally published in the New York Times, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner discusses problematic racist imagery in both the 1964 and 2018 Mary Poppins films and argues that minstrelsy has long been Disney's mode of expressing topsy-turvy fun.

Document Type

Published Version

Comments

This article is the publisher-created version, also considered to be the final version or the version of record. It includes value-added elements provided by the publisher, such as copy editing, layout changes, and branding consistent with the rest of the publication.

Original Citation

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
'Mary Poppins' and a nanny's shameful flirting with blackface.
New York Times, 2019-01-28
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/movies/mary-poppins-returns-blackface.html

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