JCM 414 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Tragic Mulatto
12 Mar 2020
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When european traders came in contact with west afriacn kingdoms creating slave trade; european colonization of africa and the scramble for territory; post-ww2 migrations from the 3rd world into europe and north america. Through imperial images and themes in britain through commodity advertising in the closing decades of the 19th century. The stamping of symbols on european products that were sent out to reach a wide range of people. Soap because it was made and sold with the underlying theme of cleansing and purifying the land europeans were taking over. Among whites, culture was opposed to nature; for blacks it coincided. Stereotype reduced to a few essentials, fixed in nature by a few simplified characteristics. Emphasizing a common humanity; still seen as childish, simple and dependent though they are capable of and on their way to equality with whites. Toms, coons, tragic mulatto, mammies, bad bucks, the birth of a nation .
