When you think of African American stereotypes, what are some of the characteristics you can imagine that people would advertise? In the documentary Ethnic Notations they explain what some of the stereotypes for African Americans were back around the 1940's. There were many cartoons and shows that depicted these stereotypes and many of them are still relevant today even though they might not be as vulgar as the were back in the 1940's. We still have many issues with stereotyping African Americans and not seeing them as they actually are. In some of those cartoons or shows are the Pickaninny and Sambo, who were major stereotypes of African Americans. These are the two that I'm going to relate to present time and how the stereotypes of these cartoons have affected what we perceive about African American now.
We'll start off talking about Pickaninny. These cartoons were shown as children who were dirty, unkept and had animal like behaviors. More times than others were these characters shown in harms way, a lot of the time they were near or escaping from a crocodile with it's mouth open to symbolizes that it was going to eat the children. People would often write stories or song about …show more content…
The stereotypes in this documentary made out African Americans to be monsters and unintelligent. A black man painting his face more black making his lips seem bigger, and wearing white gloves when he is already what they want, but not what they believe them to be. They didn’t want the truth of a African American they wanted what they made the African American out to be. When they make something out of what it is not people often begin to believe the false avocation of what is being said. Propaganda like this is what can cause people to hate on one another over something that in the end was never really true to begin
We'll start off talking about Pickaninny. These cartoons were shown as children who were dirty, unkept and had animal like behaviors. More times than others were these characters shown in harms way, a lot of the time they were near or escaping from a crocodile with it's mouth open to symbolizes that it was going to eat the children. People would often write stories or song about …show more content…
The stereotypes in this documentary made out African Americans to be monsters and unintelligent. A black man painting his face more black making his lips seem bigger, and wearing white gloves when he is already what they want, but not what they believe them to be. They didn’t want the truth of a African American they wanted what they made the African American out to be. When they make something out of what it is not people often begin to believe the false avocation of what is being said. Propaganda like this is what can cause people to hate on one another over something that in the end was never really true to begin