A Goofy Movie (1995) | Black Twitter | Coding | Who's Behind the Fat Suit? | Black Superstars and the Era of Tan |
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What is Los Angeles?
The location of the Powerline concert.
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What is "The Goofy Movie?"
This movie was found by black twitter to be the "blackest DIsney film."
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What is character code switching or black-coding?
The use of typically non-human or racially-ambiguous characters as stand-ins for black characters for their similarity of characteristics to black culture.
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What are fat-suit comedies?
An African-American oriented subgenre of films exploiting stereotypes of race, gender, sexuality, class and obesity through the use of cross-dressing and humor surrounding obesity.
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Who is Denzel Washington?
This actor won an Oscar for the best supporting actor for his phenomenal performance in "Glory" which jumpstarted his career.
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What is a possum hat?
The souvenir that Max was given by his Dad at Lester's Possum Park.
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Who is Vishawn?
A character popular Twitter meme which circulated through live tweeting on black Twitter during the release of Marvel's "Wandavision"
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Who is Donkey?
A popular (but controversially stereotypical) black-coded character from the 2001 Dreamworks' classic, Shrek.
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What is Big Momma's House.
A 2000 film starring Martin Lawrence which introduced the genre of fat-suit wearing African American comedies.
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Who is Spike Lee?
The hit independent film, "She's Gotta Have It," helped launch this young black director to fame.
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What is love over respect?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is the character Goofy's full name.
The overarching lesson throughout the film that Goofy learns from his son Max.
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Who is Chris "Jamal" Evans?
A big name celebrity that was given this alter ego on black twitter.
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Who is Skeeter?
This Nickelodeon character's love for 90s black culture including basketball and beat-boxing in "Doug" led to the internet claiming him as a black character.
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What is Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
Due to the success of Big Momma, this film, adapted from a play, became the next big hit in a line of comedies featuring cross-dressing African American comedians in fat suits.
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What is "Coming to America?"
Eddie Murphy performed as multiple stereotypical characters in this film.
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Who is Tevin Campbell?
The voice actor behind the musical sensation, Powerline.
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What is narrative extraction in film?
The adoption of a narrative in relation to the viewer's own experiences as seen in takes from black twitter on coding.
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What are gingers/redheads?
DAILY DOUBLE: Name 3 red-headed characters that have been race-swapped for African American actors.
A group of characters commonly race-swapped with black actors in modern media.
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Who is Rasputia?
This character perpetuates stereotypes of a loud, angry, sassy, overweight black woman in the 2008 film, "Norbit."
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Who is Danny Glover?
This actor is well known as the "black buddy" stereotype to Mel Gibson in the 1987 film, "Lethal Weapon."
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Who are Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, and Prince?
These people were the inspiration for Powerline's character and music.
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What is fan labor?
"Work that occurs in real time in order for marginalized fans to experience, identify with, and enjoy the non-POC-led work." AKA Live tweeting.
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Who is Piccolo?
This character in the popular anime "Dragon Ball Z" has been found to have many black characteristics.
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What is "The Nutty Professor?"
This film depicts the struggle of an overweight black man who invents a weight-loss solution to get of his obesity in response to the fear of the rise of obesity in the black community.
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What is "The Color Purple?"
This movie, adapted by Alice Walker's best-selling novel of the same name, gained lots of controversy at its' release due to its' depictions of black men.
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