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Throughout film history African Americans have played numerous stereotypical roles. Many of these films showed negative roles depicting blacks, which the average African American would never truly identify as being like them. Hollywood was not interested in making Positive Image Movies about African Americans because they saw them as risky undertakings, therefore the major roles available to black actors were as maids, butlers, pickaninies, servants or slaves. Two such films where American Americans have portrayed such roles are “Gone With The Wind” and “The Littlest Rebel.”
In the film “Gone With The Wind” Hattie McDaniel played Mammy, a massive high-strung black servant to the O’Hare family. ... Butterfly McQueen who played Prissy in the film was quite the opposite of mammy.
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