Caricature

Before the modern forms of media were invented, misrepresentations of disabled people existed in countless amounts of works of literature. Although the ableism in television and film is incredibly prevalent today- it is built off of the hundreds of years of creative work that depicts people with physical, mental, and cognitive disabilities as an object used to produce certain emotions from audience. It is a common practice to tell a person offended by this ableism to not read, watch, or listen…

In an interview with The Washington Post, he described it as a political cartoon which is supposed to trigger a discussion about certain issues, and he is proud that the Clinton drawing achieved its purpose. When Branco drew the caricature in April, he did not think it was controversial. With a bit of effort, he recalled that he was inspired to create the cartoon after the Democratic candidate spoke to the black hosts of the “Breakfast Club” radio show and revealed that she carries…

After being liberated from centuries of slavery, African Americans faced, and continue to face, the negative effects of being enslaved. Even though African Americans were granted their freedom, they were still imprisoned by unending assaults upon their conscience, esteem, intelligence and success. W.E.B. DuBois is one of the most important civil rights activists to emerge after African Americans gained the freedom and he worked diligently to improve the condition of black life primarily…

that induce laughter from the audience. In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx utilizes an abundance of puns to caricature the perceived lunacy of government officials at the time. While his character Rufus Firefly tries to woo the wealthy Ms. Teasdale, Rufus tells her that he…

advancements of technology. The 1900s century had two of the most valuable forms of mass media; the television and the print advertisement. Between these two, the repetition of American Caricatures reinforced and justified the degradation of black personhood. One of the stock characters, known as the coon caricature, was particularly influential in influencing public opinion. By way as a source of crude comedic relief, the coon represented the free black who was happy go lucky, foolish, and…

religion. The U.S. gives us freedom of religion, but there are limits to what should be said about other religions to keep from offending anyone. Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star, says that the controversy over a Danish newspaper’s caricature of Prophet Muhammad is an example of the bad relations with Muslims (50). Muslims do not draw images of their Prophet Muhammed. The Danish newspaper should have kept their thought of Prophet Muhammed censored. “The Danes have neither…

blackface shows. Masks associated with the minstrel show come from Yoruba traditions, and when the masks were appropriated, it was by a group of people who did not understand or appreciate their significance. Unfortunately, the racist minstrel caricatures and shows have overshadowed the value of minstrel shows in history. The form of the minstrel show is the most important to understand. Minstrel shows are carefully designed improvisational variety shows with a fluid…

addition to this tense atmosphere is the Charlie Hebdo incident. Under the freedom of press, the publication of the caricature was permitted. Like most French caricatures, they were made not only highly polemic, but they were subjects that could not only unite a country but also disunion. A lot of people, especially Muslims, felt that their religion was being attacked by this caricature. Before the incident Charlie Hebdo received multiple death threats (Callimachi and Yardley 2015). Immediately…

associate with them. A man in 1729 was dissatisfied of how the rich was treating the poor that he wrote an essay to attempt to make the rich realize their mistake. His name is Johnathon Swift and he wrote the essay “A Modest Proposal”. The essay is a caricature of the rich English people in 1729 and how they…

don’t think I’m uncool just because I’ve noticed this; this is just like the word on the street, you know? It’s like what I’ve heard? I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?” Here, Mr. Mali is trying to demonstrate how his caricature is afraid to even write this poem, because it expresses an opinion, which is ridiculous, however, that is the point the poet is trying to…