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20 Cards in this Set
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Mistrel Archetypes
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Jim Crow
Sambo Coon Pickeninny Mammy Brute Saphire or Jesibell |
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Jim Crow
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1st Minstrel
Crippled black man |
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Sambo and Coon
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Happy
Not intelligent Plantation is an ideal place |
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Zip Coon
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Freeblacks
Justified the manner of their treatment Overdressed Kingfish and Andy |
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Pickeninny
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Black children
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Mammy
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Uncle
Happy servants Not field workers |
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Brute
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Aimed at fear of black power
Justified lynchings sex with white women |
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The Saphire or Jesibell
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Black woman
out of control hypersexual |
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Black stereotypes through our media's history
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First mistrel stage performance
Then phonographs Then cinema Then radio Then television |
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Early black film companies
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Foster Photoplay Company |
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The first black television show
Other examples too |
Ethel Waters Show
NBC, 1939 Others: "The Laytons" "The Hazel Scott Show"-bumped off for being communist "The Billy Daniels Show"-ABC. 1st to achieve netwrok distribution before "Beaulah" and "Amos n' Andy" |
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"Beulah"
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1950
Black maid 1st appeared on radio show "Homeword Incorporated" Ethel Waters was the 1st black actress who ended up quitting because she felt the role was demeaning Next was Haddy McDaniels Then Lous Beavers |
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Black television programs before "Beulah" and "Amos n' Andy"
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Television Chapel
Wedding Bells Chance of a Lifetime Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts $64,000 Question Colgate Comedy Hour American Minstrels Captain Billy['s Mississippi Music Hall Olympus Minstrel |
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"Amos N' Andy"
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George Stevens as "King Fish". His wife is Saphire. Known as a zip coon.
"Mystic Nights of the Sea" is the club they go to Lillian Randolph- mother Amos. Central logic of the show. The rest are "black". Very rarely were there white on the show. Many felt that the show was gross in taste. |
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Reasons for failure of early black tv
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Low budget
Bad scheduling Entertaining to a black market only Not competitive enough |
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Nat King Cole Show
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Great performer
15 minute show Problems: small budget Difficult to get advertisers Lack of black talent Scheduling |
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Sound of Jazz
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Billy Holiday
Casual filming single piece |
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Twilight Zone
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Rod Sterling is the writer
Not sci fi, they are nursery tales World is truths and lies through black and white |
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Eastside/Westside-Who Do You Kill?
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Dealth with issues surrounding race
Very complicated Not easy to watch Ruth and Joe Baby bit by rat Problems: No neat endings or answers. |
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Route 66
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Shot on the road
Buzz and Todd Ethel Waters wants to play with her jazz band before she dies. |
