Amos and Andy

As previously mentioned, this cartoon maybe a funny cartoon, but the time at which it was produced was as we have discussed a time where cartoons like this were present to reinforce stereotypes. In the cartoon the characters themselves are depicted in the style where they had big lips, big white eyes, they fought all the time, use the "black" dialect. I also found it interesting that the man that Andy was fighting was shown to be more animal like than human, the Mooseman. All these images show that whites believed African Americans were lazy (Andy sleeping at the desk), aggressive (fighting theme throughout), and to a point not human (the mooseman). And thus showing that this was not just be a fun cartoon, but a perpetuation of racial ideals.