Children In Black In White: Article Summary

For my first art lecture, I attended Dr. Katherine Fusco an English Professor talk on Images of Children in Black in White. In the lecture, she talks about W.E.B Du Bois and how he uses his magazine and the photographs of black children being aimed at the black community. Also, she talked about the popular black child actor Farina who premiered in a hundred films that are aimed at the white community. She discusses how they used Farina to remind them of their sorrows and how Farina is seen more of an object sexless.
In W.E.B Du Bois magazine he discusses how education is one of the most important things and how the black youth should receive a good education. He used his magazine to show people like prove that they could get an education by printing tons of photos. I thought it was a great idea that he printed pictures to encourage more young black children to get an education to better their life in the past. He wanted to do it for the people as a one instead
Katherine Fusco also discusses a black child actor Farina and how Farina is sexless or always changing sex in each role Farina plays. Seeing or experiences tons of violence and to make it ok or a comedy they seem to make Farina sexless. Like the example, she used a cartoon which made more sense to me because this was a cartoon that I watched regularly as a child. She explained in the cartoon Tom and Jerry, Tom is always getting hit and sometimes turns into an object like a table turning Tom sexless which made it ok for the comedy. Only doing this with Farina because Farina was black which was more acceptable in the past and wouldn't accept nowadays. But for the white child, she usually was pretty and flirty carving her was into a role of romance in her adulthood. I found it very sad that this is how it was back then and even as Farina grow up at the age of 11 he retired because being older and black back then people thought they had bad intentions and didn't trust them instead of an innocent