Racism and Bigotry in the Golden Age - Unless
you were white, you were the enemy or the victim
Racism
One of the most interesting things you will find in the Golden Age comics
and in any popular media of the era was stereotypical characters. Often
facial characteristics were overemphasized. During the war the Japanese
and the Germans were portrayed as subhuman and evil doers. Blacks have
always played the role of the villain or jungle tribesman/savages. Even
the most popular and mainstream cartoons had this theme from Blackhawk
and Terry and the Pirates to The Spirit and Fiction House books. Even Bugs
Bunny was into it, do you remember the one with the little black pygmy
with the large bone in the hair and the overemphasized lips. Below are
scans of some of the faces of racism.
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