1. Black Representation
It is important to address the notion that at first contact, the English did not prejudge the African as English slaves but rather met the Africans merely as another sort of men (Jordan 4). ... The Mammy reiterated the idea that black was ugly, a notion that can be dated back to first African contact by the English. ... This representation of the Mammy persisted throughout the 20th century with films such as Imitation of Life and Gone with the Wind. ... The Coon emerged as "no-account niggers, those unreliable, crazy, lazy, subhuman creatures good for nothing more than eating watermelons,...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate