Ethnic Notions / California Newsreel (Firm).
This Emmy Award-winning documentary reveals the origins of the dehumanizing African-American stereotypes found in popular culture, from the Antebellum period to the era of the civil rights movement. Loyal Uncle Toms, carefree Sambos, faithful Mammies, grinning fools, savage brutes, and wide-eyed "pi...
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Language: | English |
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Closed-captioned. |
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New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2012], ©1987.
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Series: | Films on Demand.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (56 min.) : sound, color, digital file. |
Format: | Electronic Video |
Contents:
- Enduring Ethnic Caricatures (2:39)
- Under the Shadow of Caricatures (2:06)
- Origin of the Sambo Image (3:00)
- The Happy Sambo (3:09)
- Zip Coon (1:48)
- "Judge Priest" with Hattie McDaniel (3:52)
- Savage Brutes (2:09)
- "Birth of a Nation" (3:09)
- Savage "Pickaninnies" (3:14)
- Black Men in Blackface (2:50)
- Urban Coon (2:25)
- Reality of Black Servicemen (2:09)
- "Natural Born Gambler" with Bert Williams (5:18)
- Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer" (2:13)
- "Judge Priest" with Stepin Fetchit 1934 (2:59)
- Black is Ugly (2:15)
- Blacks are Savage (2:13)
- Blacks are Happy Servants (2:21)
- Civil Rights Movement Begins (2:30)
- Capitalizing on Old Stereotypes (2:02)
- Considering Enduring Images of Black Americans (1:21)