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- Title
"This is mud on our faces! We're not really black!" Teaching gender, race, and age through humour in The Golden Girls.
- Authors
Kannen, Victoria
- Abstract
This paper begins from the premise that humour in popular culture is an excellent pedagogical strategy for teaching about the complexities of sexism, racism, and ageism to students in higher education. In specific, the 1980s American television sitcom, The Golden Girls offers the possibility to explore the subjects of gender, sexuality, whiteness, mixed race, interracial relationships, "blackface," age, class, and familial relations. This paper analyzes one episode of The Golden Girls entitled "Mixed Blessings" in order to consider the ways in which an older/unfamiliar representation fosters critical dialogue in the classroom, which can enable oppression and privilege to become tangible and discussable subjects, while also encouraging learning to be joyful.
- Publication
Outskirts: feminisms along the edge, 2016, Vol 35, p1
- ISSN
1445-0445
- Publication type
Academic Journal