Racial Stereotypes

Everyone in their life has stereotyped another race or ethnicity. Some can be general knowledge and some can be things we have heard about them either from the media or an encounter you had with a someone part of the race or even ethnicity. Racial stereotypes are false images that people hold about all members of a particular race or ethnicty. In America, we have different racial groups and as well as ethnicity. Racial groups can be defined as a group of people that is said to be different from others because of physical or genetic traits shared among them in the group while ethnicity can be defined as a group of people that shares a common culture, religion or language. In this essay, I will be talking about different major racial groups …show more content…
African Americans have always been stereotyped throughout their lives. It has been known that stereotyping against blacks started way back in late 1800 during minstrel era. Minstrel era was the era where Americans developed a form of entertainment for themselves. It mostly consisted of comic acts, variety acts, dancing and music that were only performed by white people. In this show, the whites want to play as a black person, they paint their faces black to portray being black. The stereotypes used during this era were Jim Crow, Zip Coon, Mammy, Uncle Tom, Buck, Wench/Jezebel, Mulatto, Pickaninny. Jim Crow was a character created by a white man called Thomas Rice. He always painted his face black whenever he was about to go into his play. It was said that Jim Crow was a man that had a “crooked leg and deformed shoulders.” It was also said that he loved to dance and always wore ragged and thrown clothes. Thomas rice as well portrayed Jim Crow like that in all his show. He was later called “Daddy” Rice because he became so popular because of his character. Zip Coon was performed by George Dixon in 1834. This character was a representation of all free black during this era. It described free blacks as pompous, flamboyant and always wanted to attract attention. Another stereotype used back in the days were Mammy. She is described as an independent wise woman and has no tolerance for backtalk from anyone. Buck is …show more content…
It mainly consists of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Salvadorans and many more. They have suffered a long-time effect of racial stereotypes in the united states. Hispanics have been viewed as lazy, unintelligent, criminal, drug addicts and even rapist. The stereotypes surrounding them are; The domestic, which is described as a Hispanic maid that works for rich Caucasians. The stereotypes speak English with a mix of Spanish words and phrases. this stereotype we mostly see as of the present as well. We mostly see the stereotype in movies where the rich Caucasian hires Hispanics as a cleaning maid. Our new president elect, Donald trump as well used this stereotype to refer to Miss Universe Alicia Machado as Miss housekeeping. Bad example if we ever want to change the idea of stereotyping This stereo The male buffoon always play the fool for comic relief. His is considered childish, simpleminded and tend to do stupid stuffs for the sake of making people laugh. The Harlot is a woman that is very hot tampered and loves to have sex. The Bandito is described as a man that is dirty and his appearance is unkempt. He usually keeps an unshaved face and has a missing tooth. He is also described a dishonest and dumb person and always involved in gang fights as well. Other examples are the mamacita, gang bangers, the exotica and many more. Hispanics have rarely been portrayed as people are in control of their lives, can stand for their