The Old Negro – “more of a myth than a man.”

The New Negro Identity

The Brut & Jezebel

The Mammy & The Tom

The Coon & The Picanniny

Business and Community leaders

Middle Class

Writers, Poets & Artists

Certain Types of

Musicians

Different Visions of African-American Art

• 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

• 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-Americans-show individuality (Blues, Jazz)

“Criteria of Negro Art” - Dubois“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” -Hughes

Opposing Viewpoints on Hip-Hop

• 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

• 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

David Banner’s Testimony“What Bill O’Reilly Told Me” - Williams

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