Essay On Black Men Stereotypes

The film The "Mammy" Stereotype of Black Women in Ethnic Notions shows an important era for Black people in television. The film show how black people were first seen in television, cartoons depicting how black people look: with the big lips, big buttocks and very dark skin. This image of black people was damaging as it was showing that black people had dark skin and big lips and buttocks. The cartoons in my opinion and the first imagery they showed of black people was insulting, however on the other had it was a great start for black people to get jobs even though the people in the North according to the film were angry as they were losing jobs because of black people moving to the inner cities. In the film black males were most dominate than female actors and they
The white women doesn’t pay attention to the Latino men who seems to be trying to get her attention, according to Ngai article Mexicans were considered white and some even participated interracial marriages where mostly Anglo men and Rancheros daughters. Mexicans were able to hold office and were eligible citizens just like white people who were given citizenship based of their skin color and were they were from and how long they were in the country, one of the biggest reason Mexicans were given citizenship was because of the Gaudalupe Treaty . A man named Ricardo Rodriguez was fighting to get citizenship, the judge said he was not white but he was also not any other races that was being denied citizenship like black people or Indians, because of the treaty and other changes he was given citizenship even though the judge couldn’t tell his origin nor could Ricardo all he knew was that he was a Mexican as he parents had told him that he was a