How Did Jim Crow Dehumanized

Introduction

Racial tension, degradation, and segregation has been a staple in the United States since it’s parturition. The idea of separation based on race was a way to control, humiliate and dehumanize people of color. When the Europeans came by ship to America they bullied, murdered, and raped their way into ownership of this country. They separated the Natives into different corners of the U.S, took their land, destroyed their culture and desecrated their holy ground. When the Europeans brought Africans over as slaves they separated them as well. Lighter complected men and women were house slaves and darker complected men and women were in the fields. Jim crow existed way before it was coined as a term, and even though it has been abolished

A racist comedian by the name Thomas Dartmouth Rice used the name Jim Crow in his act that was modeled after a slave. He dressed in black face and toured the United states, because of his success many racist white comedians used this name as their stage persona. In the late 1800’s the Jim Crow law was passed, and this law denied all black people basic human rights, segregation became a coined term, and it became a new way for whites to dehumanize and control African people. Because of Jim Crow people of color were denied access to housing, education, jobs, and were victims of lynching’s, false imprisonment, and violence. These actions and events primarily took place in the southern United States, but they also occurred in the north as well. The Influence of Jim Crow spread through the U.S., and all over the world like a

This still effects society today even though we are supposed to be living in a post Jim Crow era. The history and ideas that developed during this time period created the racial climate that now live in today. For example, the museum displays caricatures of black people in a very negative light. There is a Brute caricature which portrays black men as animals and savages. The origin of this caricature came from a white man by the name of Charles H. Smith. He claimed that “A bad negro is the most horrible creature upon the earth, the most brutal and merciless"(p. 181).” If you look at modern movies such as King Kong many people view that as a racist metaphor because it is a giant gorilla holding captive a white woman. The brute caricature depicts just this in Smith’s