Bamboozled, 2002
"Again, though it is useful to put the commodification of gangsta culture in proper perspective. The worst of gangsta rap and other forms of blaxploitation (such as VH1's Flavor of Love) is best understood as a modern-day minstrel show, only this time televised around the clock for a worldwide audience. It is a for-profit display of the worst racial stereotypes and images associated with the era of mass incarceration - an era in which black people are criminalized and portrayed as out-of-control, shameless, violent, oversexed, and generally underserving."
The New Jim Crow, Chapter 4, 'The Cruel Hand' + The Minstrel Show
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