Blacks in Film During & After WWII

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"During the Second World War, the images of African Americans in film began to undergo some important changes. Since the early period of film history, African Americans had been depicted in a stereotypical manner. In early silent films, for example, black characters were generally limited to such types as "gentle Toms, doomed mulattoes, comic coons, overstuffed mammies, and mean, menacing, violent black bucks" (Bogle 1). By the late 1930's, little had changed in terms of Hollywood's portrayal of African Americans. Although the Depression Era saw the rise of several important African American film stars, the roles they were cast in were yet "little more than the familiar lineup of stumbling, shuffling, eye.popping, teeth.clacking, grinning, giddy black servants" (Ibid. 2).

African Americans were limited to such roles because racial.."

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