1. Stereotypes
What are they? Where do they come
from? Why do they exist?

2. War propaganda: Scenes from “Bugs Bunny Nips the
Nips”

3. More examples of wartime racist caricatures

4. Stereotypes of Asians
Abercrombie
and Fitch T-shirts

5. Company recalls T-shirts
in 2002 after complaints
and protests

6. Minstrel shows
The “slave” character, or “Jim Crow”
The Original Jim Crow (Sheet music
from the 1830s)
White actors (and later some black
actors) dressed up in “blackface”

7. Minstrel shows
Callender's Colored Minstrels in a plantation scenario, post-1875.

8. Minstrel shows
Poster advertising a minstrel show, 1900.

9. Minstrel shows
Postcard, 1908.

10. Minstrel shows
African-Americans also performed in blackface. (Picture of Bert Williams,
1921)

11. The “Golliwog”
from The Adventures of Two Dutch
Dolls and a Golliwog, by Florence Kate
Upton
The character is wearing traditional
minstrel attire, with dark black skin,
bright red lips, big white eyes, and wild,
wooly hair.
Image became popular in the U.K. and
was used as mascots for products,
dolls, and various other items.

12. Queen’s shop removes
golliwog toy
February 5, 2009 (BBC)

13. Stereotypes of Blacks used today
Screenshot of “Golly Dollies” website, 2012

14. The “Pickaninny”
Caricature of Black
children

15. Blackface and
“darkie” caricatures

16. Commodore Perry showed Japanese
treaty negotiators a minstrel show
aboard the Pohatan. The “Ethiopian
minstrels” performed in several places
in Japan.

17. “Kuwamanwith Three Bicrees (K3B)”
“Gosperats”
Japanese dressed in blackface

18. On January 31st, the
J.League Division 1 team
Yokohama F. Marinos held
“TricoloreFesta”, a party for
its supporters, which
included members dressing
up in blackface.
“Shimura Zoo” turned former pro
boxer Yoko Gushiken into a “black
rapper” to see if his dog would still
recognize him

19. Japanese game show has contestants
dress up in blackface and sing "We
Are the World"
The “Jynx”
character in
“Pokemon” was
changed after
complaints

20. “Bubblesisters” (Korea)
Korean television show
Dutch people in blackface celebrating the
controversial “Sinterklass” holiday
Use of blackface in
other countries

21. 1993: Ted Dansen performs in blackface at a club next to Whoopi
Goldberg, his ex-girlfriend. The club later apologized for the routine.

22. April 2012: Swedish minister of
culture Lena AdelsohnLiljeroth
attends a taxpayer-funded party

23. Gatsby ad showing black men with a chimpanzee imitating them

24. Due to protests, Gatsby stopped
ad campaign

26. The “Mammy”

27. “Little Black Sambo”
• Written by Helen Bannerman
(Scottish)
• Original illustrations featured a
caricatured South Asian boy
• Led to many pirated versions
• “Sambo” was a common slave name
and began to be used as a
stereotypical African-American name
about 150 years ago

28. ちびくろ さんぼ
Published by Zuiunsha in 2005

33. Sequel to “chibikurosambo”: “Ufu and Mufu”
(August 2011, Kyoto Station)

38. What if we were to “put the shoe
on the other foot”?

39. 『ちびきいろじゃぷ』
“Little Yellow Jap” (parody)
“to put the
shoe on the
other foot”

42. What do you think?