Nowadays lots of races are stereotyped, but African Americans are one of the most frequent racial groups stereotyped against. Negative stereotypes of African Americans have been around ever since slavery. The stereotypes served a strong purpose. The stereotypes justified enslavement of Africans. The captured Africans were presented as dangerous and violent and as pagans who would benefit from the civilizing influence of slaveholders. They were said to be like ignorant little kids, and would receive help from slaveholders. One of the most recent problems occurring today is racism in the media. Stereotyping in television and movies has reached a peak. The media gives children negative views of African American lifestyle. There are T.V. shows that depict African Americans in a way that is not true. There’s even a video game about with an African American as the main character and the only thing that he does is kill, rob and have sex with people. The people who stereotype are mainly people who haven’t been around African Americans and go by the only thing that they see about African Americans. So therefore the media is a large part of the part of stereotyping of African Americans.

The character of Gus (played by a white actor, Walter Long, in blackface) occupied the buck role in this film. Second is "The Coon"; there are actually three types: "The pure Coon", "the pickaninny" and the "uncle remus". Although it is wrong in the case I am speaking about, there can also be positive stereotypes. According to this perspective, prejudice, intergroup conflict, and stereotyping may arise simply from the struggle to attain or maintain a positive social identity. People are categorized into social groups and locate themselves within a category. The pure coons were the most degrading of all black stereotypes. The Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the "separate but equal" clause was unconstitutional because it violated the children's rights by separating them solely on the classification of the color of their skin. (Smith 4) Not only does it reinforce the most frightening stereotype of African American men, but also it does so with the most powerful and memorable of images, photographs, rather than words. (The Case 2) In this experiment black children were shown almost identical dolls, the only palpable difference being skin color, because one doll was black and one was white. By contrast, photos of Anglo youths wrestled to the ground by police are exceedingly rare. the most famous examples of internalization of stereotypes is the experiment first used in the case of Brown vs. "The Mammy" is usually loud, independent and overweight. (Martindale 7) The results of my research I made very clear throughout my paper, I fell that stereotyping is apart of our society that will never be annihilated completely. Harriet expressed a need to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race in her novel.