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The mammy stereotype depicted female slaves as loyal and happy.

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The Sambo stereotype depicted male slaves as lazy, ignorant and happy servants.

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The film explains how harmful and insulting caricatures of African Americans were popularized in media and dehumanized them.

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Harmful African American stereotypes in early media was a way for people to control the media and enforce white supremacy.

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This film was one of the highest grossing films at its time of release, but is notorious for perpetuating extremely harmful African American stereotypes and serves as white supremacist propaganda.

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The film talks about the history of minstrel shows and how they became embedded in Amercian media and contributed to insulting stereotypes.

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The film talks about how the media conditioned society into taking harmful stereotypes about African Americans and their culture as truth.

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The film urges the audience to reflect on the lasting impact of the stereotypes media has depicted and how it is embedded in racism and microagressions against black people today.

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The film argues that awareness to the harmful and racist past of the media can prompt action and resistance to stereotypes today.

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The film brings up how the harmful stereotypes are pushed onto black people and gives an simplistic and uneducated image of black people. In doing this it can cause internalized racism from the consistency of casual racism in media.

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African Americans were often used in media as comedic relief and made them the butt of the joke. It caused society to not take black people seriously and only relate them to characters they've consumed in media.

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African Americans were often used in media as comedic relief and made them the butt of the joke. It caused society to not take black people seriously and only relate them to characters they've consumed in media.

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The film also highlights how caricatures normalized exaggerated and insulting beauty standards for African Americans.

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Ethnic Notions uses visual storytelling throughout the film by providing images and clips from media that depicts stereotypes of African Americans.