White critics of jazz in America during the 1920s’ often hid behind racist stereotypes. Amiri Baraka, an African-America music critic, states that most white critics were being biased when writing about jazz and often expressed harsh views towards this music style because of its “slave roots”. White criticism in America didn't sensor their racist views toward African Americans. Maureen Anderson, a literature professor, states that: “ At the beginning of jazz’s worldwide popularity, the black population was victimized by the white racial propaganda that labels African Americans as black men of hostile, animalistic rapists, and savages” (137). By these remarks white critics denigrated African-American musicians based on their color and not