ETHNIC NOTIONS Transcript. Ethnic Notions. Transcript. VOICE OVER. A is for Aunty, de odes er all, she rocks all us chilren t sleep. D is for Daniel, who tends to de do, he took care of massa, way back. F is for Felix, who wont do no wuk, hes lazy and shifless and ready. Z is for Zonia, chunky and small, but ere comes de Missus so I guess. VIDEOSYNC Cartoon SCRUB ME MAMA WITH THE BOOGIE WOOGIE BEATListen, Mammy, that aint no way to wash clothes. What you all. need is rhythmWh wh what do you all mean, rhythmHa ha ha ha. Ill show you what I mean musicNARRATOR The mammy the pickaninny the coon. Well into the middle of the twentieth century. Americans. By 1. 94. American. culture. These were the images that decorated our homes, that served and amused. Taken for granted, they worked their way into the mainstream of American. Of ethnic caricatures in America, these have been the most enduring. Today theres little doubt that they shaped the most gut level feelings. LEVINE When you see hundreds of them, uh in all parts of the country. They obviously appeal to people. They appeal to the creator, but the. CHRISTIAN It is not just that its in the figurines, and the. And that our lives are lived. LEVINE Blacks dont really look like that. So why is it so appealing. You look at them often. Um, so that theyve had a great impact in our society. La Case de loncle Tom Uncle Toms Cabin est un roman de lcrivaine amricaine Harriet Beecher Stowe. Publi dabord sous forme de feuilleton en 1852, il vaut. Directed by Harry A. Pollard. With Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann. Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the. Directed by Stan Lathan. With Avery Brooks, Kate Burton, Bruce Dern, Paula Kelly. The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with. Saar, Ferdinand von Smtliche Werke 9 Novellen aus sterreich III Leutnant Burda Seligmann Hirsch Die Troglodytin Ginevra Geschichte eines Wienerkindes. Ethnic Notions Transcript. VOICEOVER A is for Aunty, de odes er all, she rocks all us chilren t sleep in her shawl. D is for Daniel, who tends to. The Novel 100 A ranking of the greatest novels of all time. Also 100 Books That Shaped World History. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Searchable etext. Discuss with other readers. Langstroth_UncleTom_full.jpg' alt='Uncle Tom`S Cabin 1987' title='Uncle Tom`S Cabin 1987' />This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uncle Tom`S Cabin 1987' title='Uncle Tom`S Cabin 1987' />They therefore tell us both about the inner desires of the people who. VIDEOSYNC UNCLE TOMS CABANAWell now chilren, ol Uncle Toms gon tell you the real true story. Uncle Toms Cabin. NARRATOR Contained in these cultural images is the history of. What were the consequences of these caricaturesHow did they mold and. America for more than 1. VOICE OVER Laughing Ben I got a hat on my head, shoes. I care, cuz Im the luckiest coon in this town. NARRATOR In the early 1. Sambo. This image became one of the classic portrayals of black men in film. Care free and irresponsible, the sambo was quick to avoid work while. His life was. one of child like contentment. VIDEOSYNC RHAPSODY IN BLACK AND BLUE filmMan Dog gonnit, cant this boy go to town Listen here. Ha, ha, ha Woman Come away from that old box. Man Well, can I help it cause I got an ear for music Woman Yeah, thats all you got, is an ear for music, and a mouth for. You better get a desire for work. NARRATOR The happy sambo began his stage life in the late 1. T. D. Rice brought a new sensation to American. Rice was known as an Ethiopian delineator, a white comedian who performed. The name of his routine would later become the symbol. South. SLOAN The Jim Crow was a dance that started on the plantation as. Dancing was said to be crossing. And so the slaves created a way of shuffling. NARRATOR The slaves had a saying for their cunning in skirting. SLOAN Wheel about, and turn about, and jump just so, every. I wheel about, I jump Jim Crow. NARRATOR According to legend, T. D. Rice saw a crippled black man. Jim Crow dance. Rice took the mans tattered. SLOAN It was an instant success. And America loved it. And a bevy. of imitators came about, uh literally hundreds of men tore up their. Jim Crow character. And so here we have Jim Crow, T. D. Rice, taking a dance which was altered. And. he had no intention of presenting the truth. But what was bought by the majority of the people in Ohio, and the Louisiana. Territory, and in, along the Erie Canal, was that this was a true image. And it was a devastating image. People in small. towns who had never seen blacks, you know, and suddenly saw Rice, bought. NARRATOR In 1. 84. Instead of delineators, they called themselves. The minstrel show captivated broad audiences, mostly in the North, and. Americas first form of national popular entertainment. Like movies today, successful minstrels played to the tastes and values. Jim Crow, reflecting popular demand, evolved in the singing dancing. Sambo. This light hearted figure became one of the most potent forces. TURNER The minstrelry era really took off at the same time as the. And you could almost sort of chart the two. As there were people working. NARRATOR Minstrel caricatures mirrored the prevailing belief that. Slaves were content. The proof. was offered in the image of the happy Sambo. FREDRICKSON The old plantation was presented as a kind of paradise. White Americans were being constantly bombarded by the image of happy. So slavery must be a good institution. The, that whole. cultural image of the benign, the beneficent institution was projected. Civil War. VOICE OVER So blessed with moderate work, with ample fare. With all the good the starving pauper needs, The happier slave on each. I am quite sure they never could become a happier people than. I find them here No tribe of people have ever passed from barbarism. So hand de Banjo down to play. Well make it ring both night and day. And we care not what de white folks say, Dey cant get us to run away. NARRATOR Time and again these sentiments were expressed in popular. Civil War. For many Americans North and. South, the myth of Sambo resolved both the moral and political conflict. LEVINE On the one hand, whites like to think of their blacks as. NARRATOR The slavery debate grew more heated as the Civil War approached. Minstrels, playing to conservative sentiment, turned their attention. North, and a new character appeared beside the. Southern Sambo Zip Coon. VOICE OVER TRANSCENDENTALISM Transcendentalism is dat spiritual cognoscence ob psychological irrefragibility. NARRATOR A dandy, and a buffoon, Zip Coons attempts to imitate. Together Zip Coon and Sambo provided a double edged defense of slavery. Zip Coon, proof of blacks ludicrous failure to adapt to freedom and. Sambo, the fantasy of happy darkies in their proper place. VIDEOSYNC JUDGE PRIEST filmMammy sings I got to take down de judges clothes. Got to take em. in de house, yes Lord Got to get out that ol ironin board fix em. Hmmmmm, yes Lord NARRATOR When this film was released in 1. Mammy had. become such a staple figure in portraits of the Old South, it was hard. Southern home without her. VIDEOSYNC JUDGE PRIESTMammy Praise de Lord Mr., Loom Is you heah or is you aint Man Hi, Aunt DillsieMammy How come you heah NARRATOR Like the happy Sambo, the Mammy emerged as a defense of. Plantation novels and minstrel shows presented her as fat. VOICESYNC JUDGE PRIESTMammy You stay here. Us is gon kill de high steppinest rooster in de. Man With waffles, tooMammy Dont you worry now, honey, youse home now. Mr. Looms home Mr. Looms home CHRISTIAN She was always presented as docile, loyal, uh protective. Gta 5 Hack Tool Ps3 No Survey. Shes presented almost as an antithesis of the white lady, the person. NARRATOR With her hair hidden beneath a bandanna, her ample weight. Mammy was stripped of sexual allure. Faithfully she served the masters household in popular fiction and. CHRISTIAN If the mammy were to be a sexual being, which of course. Uh she, because. she would then be capable of being desired by the master of the house. We know from reading the diaries and the letters of slave mistresses. SONG MAMMY JINNYS JUBILEEA brand new bandanna around mammys head. You couldnt miss the color cause it surely am red Come on n shake your feet. Oh honey, shake your feet. To ol Mammy Jinnys jig. Hee ha haaNARRATOR While happy in her subservience to whites, the mammy was. CHRISTIAN In your usual set up, in American society, the person. The mammy is presented as the controller.