Film ethic notes AFAM 11/12

  • Traces stereorypes that have fueled anti-black racism in the United States.

  • Take notes (to study for final and guide discussion after film)

  • Guiding Questions

  • Think about stereopes and controlling images about Blackness that have pervaded

American popular consciousness

  • How do these inges algn with the social, political, and economic anxieties of the era they emerge?

  • What mark have these media images left on our contemporary culture and racism we see today?



  • Daniel door man

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  • Zonai

  • Ape

  • Big curves features

  • Watermellon stereotype

  • Mean baby

  • Wrong images constructing views of AA

  • Over exaggerated features

  • They really don’t look life that

  • Shows about what the people are like of the t ones who consume them

  • More than 100years

  • The sambo

    • Laughing black old man

    • Carefree and irresponsible

  • Ethiopian

  • Jim Crow

    • Dancing was against the church

    • TD rice

    • Imitators came about

    • From a dance and exaggerated again

    • Spreading lies about a Blackman to people who have never seen a Blackman

    • Potent forces of political of slavery

    • Make them seem goofy

  • Zip coon

  • Both created a defense of slavery

  • Mamry

    • As fat

    • Loving caring

    • Docile and loyal and protective of the White House

    • Not sexual because it would be threat to the system because it would win over the master of the house

    • She is the controlling

  • Old streyotypes. We’re funneled into politics

  • Brutes/ beast

  • Birth of a Nation

    • Black played by white people

    • Insighted racial violence and justified it

    • Good old days

    • Want to go back to before civil war

  • Pickannies

    • Blacks subhuman

    • Dirty

    • Hait messy

    • Animal like as savage

    • Justify threat of being eaten by animal

    • Removing blacks so there is nothing left

  • Black man as black face’

    • Darkening there skin

    • Widening their face

  • Black men army during ww1

    • Race riots

    • Entertainer jobs and servants

  • Cartoons provide the best form of racial charicture

  • Streyotypes as funny

  • House hold nicknacks

  • On the marketing of sryrups, flout, beans, tobacco