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Sean B. Coonskin; the incredibly controversial 1975 animated film shunned for its use of animated racial stereotypes and insensitive name. Originally to be named Harlem Nights by its creator, Ralph Bakshi, it was renamed a second time for the censored version, Street Fight.
Jul 11, 2016 · A subversive and satirical re-imagining of Disney’s Song Of The South transplanted to Harlem, Ralph Bakshi’s incendiary masterpiece Coonskin exploits and eviscerates grotesque American racial stereotypes with a politically incorrect, profane and vicious sense of humor.
Jul 20, 1975 · In his latest creation, called “Coonskin,” most of the major characters are black. Mixing live action and animation, and featuring such actors as Scatman Crothers, playwright Charles Gordone,...
Coonskin is said by its director to be about blacks and for whites, and by its ads to be for blacks and against whites. Its title was originally intended to break through racial stereotypes by its bluntness, but now the ads say the hero and his pals are out "to get the Man to stop calling them coonskin."
Ralph Bakshi’s 1975 film Coonskin presents its audience with so much racially charged, controversial and deliberately offensive material its impossible to formulate a response as you watch it.
Mar 31, 2017 · However, Bakshi hated the title “Coonskin,” which he always claimed was forced on the film by producer Ruddy, who thought it was more controversial (i.e. commercial).
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Its title was originally intended to break through racial stereotypes by its bluntness, but now the ads say the hero and his pals are out “to get the Man to stop calling them coonskin.” The movie’s original distributor, Paramount, dropped it after pressure from black groups.
