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(houstonpress.com) His "Madea" character, a hulking, gun-toting, trash-talking grandma, who Perry plays himself, in drag, has sparked cultural critics like Jill Nelson to accuse him of unfunny "body-snatching," as she said in a recent New York Times article: "[It] generates contempt for and ridicule of and erasure of black women as complex and substantive," she said. The same article called attention to portrayals by Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Jamie ...
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