Party of 5 Blackface Minstrels
Party of 5 Blackface Minstrels
Reimagine the TV series Party of Five as a fanfic/parody featuring a recently orphaned family of young black siblings, 18 - 26, suddenly orphaned and whose leading oldest brother is seduced by white vaude ille producers to have the family perform as traveling blackface minstrels. They earn financial security but struggle with the emotional roll of degrading themselves and their race building five stereotype based characters - buck, sapphire, sambo, coon, and jezebel - for racist white audiences. Their performances are extremely popular and all five become sex symbols. Compare and explore jasmine keisha and sharonda as parallels to neve campbell, Jennifer love hewitt, and lacy chabert as sex symbols and contrast the largely white male audience's interest in the latter three as fantasy girlfriends and wives with the former three features in the same audience's fantasies as sex objects, whores, and slaves. Raceplay Consent Racial slurs Raceplay Elements Thriller Sex Racial Skin Color Descriptions Universal Consent & Erotic Atmosphere