In class, we discussed the idea of minstrel shows in American society and strangely that night I went home and watched the show Full Frontal where they briefly spoke about how our modern cartoons also evolved from minstrel shows. From the design of characters such as Mickey Mouse wearing white gloves and the rubbery way cartoon characters, comes from the movement and style of minstrel shows.

Looking back on a lot of concepts that many would consider “American” you can see where those ideas were taken from black culture. From fashion and music, white America has appropriated from black culture to a point where it has become so mainstream in our society that we can not even tell where it came from.