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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Katharina Oguntoye as we have proved overBy Nicholas Sammond. Published by Duke University Press. Softcover, 400 pages, Prose w B&W images, 2015. In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the