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Social Struggle

Media Encoding

Audience Decoding

“Common Sense”/Cultural

Power

Media Appropriation

Ritual Consumption

Acceptance

Negotiation

Resistance

Code

Map

Template

“Hegemony”/

A Deep Code

Individualism

Work

Prosperity

Intergenerational Progress

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MinstrelsyMinstrelsy

T.D. Rice as “Jim Crow”

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Minstrelsy as Social Struggle

Minstrelsy as Social Struggle

When I got out I hit a manHis name I now forgot,

But dere was nothing left‘Sept a little grease spot

—Jim Crow Verse

When I got out I hit a manHis name I now forgot,

But dere was nothing left‘Sept a little grease spot

—Jim Crow Verse

I went down de riber,I didn’t mean to stay,

But dere I see so many galls,

I couldn’t get away—Jim Crow

Verse

I went down de riber,I didn’t mean to stay,

But dere I see so many galls,

I couldn’t get away—Jim Crow

Verse

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Minstrelsy as Hegemony

Minstrelsy as Hegemony

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What did it mean when a black man played a minstrel?

What did it mean when a black man played a minstrel?

William Henry Lane“Master Juba”

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Is Snoop Dogg a modern day minstrel?

Is Snoop Dogg a modern day minstrel?

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The “Commodification” of a Racial Code

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Black “labor functions as the spectacular mirror [and foil] of [an] ideal consuming [american]” —Mehaffy (pp. 136-137)