Black cartoon characters star in 'Funky Turns 40' at the DuSable Museum.
by Jake Malooley"Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives," running through January 2015 at the Museum of Science and Industry, keeps the racist skeletons securely stowed in Walt's vault. As the show charts the Mouse House's technical advancements, the content omissions are numerous: a blackface production of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933); the Japanese caricatures of Commando Duck (1944); Songs of the South (1946), a musical deemed so insensitive it's never been released on home video; Ariel's dutiful Caribbean stereotype sidekick Sebastian in The Little Mermaid (1989); the Arab burlesque of Aladdin (1992).…[ Read more ]