jan 1, 1890 - African American Caricature

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The end of reconstruction was a period of intense horrifying racial violence and deliberate sustained political oppression of African Americans. By 1890, attacks were aimed at erasing African Americans’ participation in politics and the economy. African Americans rise to success installed fear in whites, prompting them to feel the need to reinforce and restore racial boundaries. These boundaries were set in part by, fear and loathing, shown through segregation, lynching’s, riots and violence of black people. African Americans became susceptible to coercion and manipulation as stereotypes were put in place by caricatures that were reimagined during Jim Crow era. Through these caricatures’ blacks were portrayed in popular culture as exotics, cannibalistic savages, obedient servants and a menace to society.

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