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May 2016. This spread on the internet after Ben Garisson drew it. While the caricutre from 2018 of shows Serena as animalistic it also shows her as very masculine and her opponent as slim and feminine. This image depicts that representation of Black women as more masculine than they look or unnattractive when compared to white women. I received this image from the cartoonist's twitter account.
May 2016. The Cinncinati Zoo gorilla Harambe dies and memes began of comparing Black people to the gorrila. This one specifically compares Michelle Obama to Harambe.I recieved this image from someones facebook page.
Another example of memes from this time.
2008-2012. While Barack Obama was running after he won there were a lot of people photoshopping the face of a monkey onto his and Michelle's face.
- This Vogue cover was the first time a Black man had been on the cover. It is Lebron James and Gisele Bundchen, in a pose similar to the iconic visual of King Kong, a giant ape, holding a woman while he tears New York City a paty.
- This is a picture from the modern remake of the original King Kong Movie. Without this film and the original stories about King Kong there would be no way for the the Vogue cover to come about.
1980s-90s. Much like that cartoonist who drew the Obama's as Monkeys, in the 80s and 90s there was a similar artist with the pen name A. Wyatt Mann, who often drew Black people as monkeys or in a primitive state.
- Disney releases the film The Jungle Book, a movie about a boy who lives in the jungle. In these scenes he meets an ape who wants to be human like him. The monkey talks in jive slang and his song has a jazz sound to it. All of these elements that are usually attributed to Black people. This is one of the first times that Black people are represented as an animal in a subtle way that one might not think to much about. Similar to how we see in Black people represened as animals in films like King Kong and Planet of the Apes.
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- Disney puts out a children's book that is a part of a series of Mickey Mouse books. In this book Mickey Mouse and the Boy Thursday, a savage like animal comes from Africa to be educated by Mickey and to "learn our ways." While all the charachters in the book are all animals, the charachter Thursday seems to be even more animalistic than the other charachters and he has the face similar to a monkey.
- Disney has a long history of their racist cartoons. This one is from Donald Duck's book series. It is called In Darkest Africa. This book protrays Black people as savage and violent and animalistic.
- Tin Tin in the Congo is an old story that was drawn years after the story was created. Without this story the artist in Disney probable would not have drawn their charachters the way that they did
- This image is from "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs," a jazzy parody of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" with the cast being Black characters. This image shows a Black woman with large proportions and looking angry while the white woman with a more desirable shape looking cheerful. This is an image of how Black women have been seen as aggressive while other women are seen nice and demure.
- This is from the DC Comic America's Greatest Comics #2. The Black charachter is the hero's servant and is drawn with the facial features of a chimpanzee. This comic shows how drawing Black charachters in this way was normalized during this time.
- This comic follows a detective and his sidekick Ebondy White, who is a monkey and clearly a Black charachter. Another why drawing Black people as monkey was normalized especially in the 40s-50s.
1920s. in this old cartoon these two "white" charachters arrive in Africa and are somehow turned Black and begin to interact with the local people. They show Black people as savages and violent and animal like. This is much like how they are shown in Disney films and books later.
- This is a postcard that shows the "angry black woman" archetype beating her husband. This shows a way that Black women were represented as aggressive and masculine.
- This is from Types of Mankind where a group of Social Dawarnist's decided that Black people were not human and were in fact closer to apes than white people.
- This is a caricature of Serena Williams in which she is oversized, and her stature is the stature of an animal, her upright wild hair and overdrawn large lips. In the corner of the image her “opponent” drawn as a slim blonde white woman, ignoring the fact that Osaka is actually a multiracial woman. The Umpire is saying "Can't you just let her win?" It was drawn by Australian cartoonist Mark Knight after Williams' reactions during the U.S. Open Championship.
- In this excerpt from Sir Thomas Herbert's Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Part of Asia and Afrique he states "I doubt many of them have no better predecessors then Monkeys." He goes on to describe how the females supposedly carry their babies on their back in the same way monkeys carry their babies. Without this initial description of Africans, perhaps they woud not have thought to even associate Black people with monkeys and we would not have the several drawings, cartoons and racist caricatures without it. I got this source from Dr. Elizabeth Zold's powerpoint on travel narratives.
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- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes in Turkish Embassy Letters that they are "country-people the baboons, 'tis hard to fancy them a distinct race; I could nto help thinking there had been some ancient alliance between them." In this she implies that Africans are related to baboons in someway. I got this source from Dr. Elizabeth Zold's powerpoint on travel narratives.
- John Atkins' A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies. He describes people as being Apes and dumb. I got this source from Dr. Elizabeth Zold's powerpoint on travel narratives.
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2001ish: The Planet of the Apes franchise started in the 60s. However the current ones have been said to be an obvious representation of people of color or more likely Black people. While there is much debate about this, the fact that people even think of Black people when they see movies about apes shows the influence of the continuous representation of Black people as apes. Also when trying to insult a black person it is not uncommmon to see someone say they look like an ape from the planet of the apes films.