COON: Steppin’ Fetch-It’s Redemption (2011)
oil pastel, acrylic & markers on paper
26 x 47 inches
Stepin Fetchit was the first millionaire Black actor also called by white america as the ‘laziest man alive.’ behind the frame are white caricaturs in Black face enjoying the residual earnings of Fetchit’s labor through entertainment- the same ones that would drive him as a millionaire into bankruptcy. the position of Fetchit in white face in battle with limbs of Black enslaved people constructs the limitations of how is entertainment was received and to which he was conditioned and upheld by white supremacist partriarchy as contigent to his commerical success.
oil pastel, acrylic & markers on paper
26 x 47 inches
Stepin Fetchit was the first millionaire Black actor also called by white america as the ‘laziest man alive.’ behind the frame are white caricaturs in Black face enjoying the residual earnings of Fetchit’s labor through entertainment- the same ones that would drive him as a millionaire into bankruptcy. the position of Fetchit in white face in battle with limbs of Black enslaved people constructs the limitations of how is entertainment was received and to which he was conditioned and upheld by white supremacist partriarchy as contigent to his commerical success.
