... to teach the Anglo-Americans about the black inferiority and to tell them about the curiosity and periphery of the "African" race. Most early Negro appearances took their cue from the old Southern stereotypes "of the coon, the tragic mulatto, the mammy, and the brutal black buck" . These stereotypes that had existed since the days of slavery and the Civil War were already popularized in American life and mind. The black character types, all ... rescued when he is hit by an enemy shell. But the rescuer is critically wounded himself, and when he requests shortly before his death a last ki...

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