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1930s

  1. Hattie McDaniel
    • "Gone With the Wind"
    • - petticoat (sexualized mammy)
    • Academy Award
    • "I'd rather play a maid at $7,000 a day than be a
    • maid at $7 a day"
    • "High Hat Hattie" (radio get up)
    • in over 300 films
  2. Louise Beavers
    • Often played mammy
    • --hypersexualized
    • "Imitation of Life"
  3. Stepin' Fetchit
    • Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry
    • 1st Black Millionaire
    • Often played "coon"character
    • Internalized his coon role
    • criticised by black community
Author
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ID
10760
Card Set
1930s
Description
1930-1940
Updated

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