Tag: political cartoons

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Entertainment has a history of normalizing particular behaviors. This is nothing new. Cartoons are just one of many forms of entertainment media that are influential on the general public. (more…)

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Sometime in the early 2000s, the retail chain Urban Outfitters began selling a board game based on a Hasbro classic, called Ghettopoly. The box cover, made to look like a hoodlum had graffiti-painted its title across an alley wall, also featured a black “gangsta” holding a bottle of ‘shine in one paw and a gun loaded with an extra magazine (more…)