
147: Hattie McDaniel (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 2)
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Hollywood Movies - Hattie's Subtly Racist Maids
The persona that she presented as a blue singer allowed hattie to speak truth to power and challenge the amer an racist and sexist status quo. In blond venus, which we've discussed before on this podcast, marlina dietrix duplicitus, show girl slash mam helen, goes on the run with a black maid named cora. Cora looked like a movie stereotype of a domestic worker, but she didn't behave like the docile, totally subservient mammy in real life. Eventually, studios began creating comically belligerent maids for h Hattie to play,. But this was only after she began adding much to what was onthe page with
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