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The Old Negro – “more of a
myth than a man.”
The Brut & Jezebel
The New Negro Identity
Business and Community
leaders
Middle Class
The Mammy & The Tom
Writers, Poets & Artists
The Coon & The Picanniny
Certain Types of
Musicians
Different Visions of African-American Art
“Criteria of Negro Art” - Dubois
• Make art that focuses
on beauty
• “All art is propaganda”
• Meant to invoke thought
• Create a better image
of Blacks
• Stay away from old
stereotypes
• Focus on the positive
“The Negro Artist and the
Racial Mountain” -Hughes
• Show both the positive
and negative –”the
truth”
• Embrace the whole
culture (not just middle
class)
• Self-expression is what
is important
• Focus Lower class
African-Americansshow individuality
(Blues, Jazz)
Opposing Viewpoints on Hip-Hop
“What Bill O’Reilly Told Me” - Williams
• Media is depicting Blacks as
violent and foul-mouthed
• Images fuel racist attitudes
• Blacks that criticize these
images are labeled as Toms
or “Happy Negros”
• Images are false (distorted)
and don’t represent most
Blacks
• Young Blacks feel they have
to fit into these images
David Banner’s Testimony
• Rap music is an escape from
violent lifestyle in his
community
• Reflection of the “way it is”
• Rap is “the voice of the
underbelly of America”
• Violence, drugs, and crime
were around before Hip-Hop
• People want to buy this
music
How is the material on these three slides
related?
• All views on the images projected of African
Americans
• Expectation of what should be projected
and the purpose of art (self-expression or
propaganda)
• What is the effect of these images?
• What is the truth?
• Stereotypes and prejudice