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"So you're a movie star now, Cousin Zeke!", Ten High, June 1939 (lemmy.world)
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From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

There's a certain mentality, a little less common now but all over the place in old media, where the very existence of a particular group was the entire joke. Just, "Hey! What if a guy in black face! HAHAHA!"