Stereotypes: Mammy
Brittany Charles
Gender Issues Paper #1
Sr. Patrinos
February 22, 2005
Black actors, since the beginning of cinema have struggled to get the attention and credit from the Academy. Several times, my personal heroes where forced to compromise their grandiose acting ability for small "mammy" and "sambo" characters. We were forced to the back and never really given a chance to shine in the spotlight. Discrimination against African Americans even plagued children's cartoons.
In my paper I would like to cover how, black actors, especially women, are being discriminated against in the roles they are given to play. Granted that the roles have expanded from "mammy" and "Aunt Jemima", we are still not given leading roles. And the leading roles that they do receive often do not accredit the black community as having strong women. We are often cast as crazy girlfriends, crack-addicted prostitutes, or some "hoochie mamma" that has seven different baby fathers. An......
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