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Listen to native speakers pronounce “minstrelsy” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
A source for the cat's red bow tie is Krazy Kat, the ambiguously gendered creation of biracial cartoonist George Herriman.Seuss also draws on the traditions of minstrelsy, an influence that emerges first in a minstrel show that he wrote and performed in in blackface whilein high school. In fact, blackface minstrelsy recurs in Seuss's early cartoons, in 20th century popular culture, and its traces linger on in many other icons