Radio-era blackface humor in Egypt shifted from makeup to accent comedy.

Evidence

Al-Kassär continued to play Osman well into the 1930s and was, in that decade, also heard regularly on the radio, which underscores how easily blackface makeup translated into jokes about accents and foreign behavior that could be appreciated even on the airwaves. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 933

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptians asserted cultural dominance by mocking foreign accents in Arabic; Egyptian satirists claimed cultural authority by mocking rulers’ Arabic accents — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 361; Distinct linguistic hierarchies separated the Egyptian satire of Sudanese from that of Ottoman masters — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 362
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Egyptians asserted cultural dominance by mocking foreign accents in Arabic; Egyptian satirists claimed cultural authority by mocking rulers’ Arabic accents — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 361; Distinct linguistic hierarchies separated the Egyptian satire of Sudanese from that of Ottoman masters — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 362