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Racial Stereotypes
The minstrel Era played a significant role in popularizing racist images and perceptions around the world concerning the black people. The mimicking of African-American way of life and transforming it into entertainment for white people, was the biggest racial entertainment that America ever developed. The cues of hostility, ignorance, and prejudice were closely associated with black race and sold widely as the true image of black people. The fact that the black race was reduced to stereotyped form of entertainment for the white people demonstrated how the white race devalued the life of a black person. The white race loved at their ignorance, lack
contention, which activists wanted to change because all races are equal regardless of the color of their skin (Kretsedemas 2010).The minstrel Era even though popularized the black culture, did a lot of damage that lives on a century after shaping perceptions, attitudes, and racist images towards the black race. The depicting African-Americans as violent even in the legislature were the worst image that the minstrel era developed towards the black race. It is important to mention that the black men who were voted in the legislature were highly educated and informed. The sustained portrayal of the black race as inferior to the white race at all cost depicts the era as highly focused towards shaming and profiling the black race as uneducated and clueless of what it was supposed to do, when in the real sense African-Americans were dignified people, who not only loved order but also the most hard working people that America ever knew. The stereotypes that the minstrel era developed towards the black race are unjustified thus, the emergence of protest that aimed at debunking the racist image towards the black race.
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