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Introduction

Daniel: African Americans and stereotypes. Nowadays lots of races are stereotyped, but African Americans are one of the most frequent racial groups being stereotyped against. Stereotypes about African Americans and their culture have evolved in society particularly after slavery. They were presented as dangerous and violent and portrayed blacks menacing, untidy, rebellious, disrespectful, buffoonish, sexual, immoral, hopeless, untrained, uneducated, and noisy.

Johan: One of the problems today that is occurring is racism in the media. The media gives negative views on the lifestyle of African Americans. These stereotypes that the media uses today of African Americans impairs the realistic image of them to the audiences. It seems
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Thomas Rice was a white performer who popularized the Jim Crow character, his comedy routine was an old crippled black man dressed in rags, which he saw dancing on the street. He performed the same dance the old man had been dancing and got a great response from the white western world.

Daniel: These other stereotypes in comical skits representing African Americans of ‘Water Melon Eating’, ‘Laziness’ and ‘inferior to whites’ also flourished. The black caricature, Jim Crow became the image of a black man to the white community as some people had not even come close to a African American. This was most influential of the image of blacks in the Western history that has shaped their representation in society today.

Johan: Portraying the blacks being inferior further helped white people establishing more of a racial segregation, the more that the blacks were represented as different, the more the white society became more secure by the thought of the African Americans permanently different and
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To tokens surprise he was able to play the bass without even picking up the bass before. This is as cartman says is due to the inheritance of his ethnicity. He was also annoyed by cartman's constant stereotyping.

Conclusion

The media is a powerful resource, and provides people with information about the world around us, and the way people are portrayed in the media can affect the way the world views them. As such, It is important to we discover how the media,and in specific television affects African Americans in society so that current and future members of the media landscape can help influence media for the better, and understand how the representations that are put on their stations affects African Americans,as well other races views of them.

Family Guy

Daniel: Family guy is an animated tv series that appeals to a large audience, mainly 25-40year olds. The show created by Seth Mc Farlane and written by mike henry and alex borstein first aired january 32st 1999. The show is a comedic show that is self described as a “Sick Twisted and politically incorrect” animated

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