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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of seven autobiographical works by American writer Maya Angelou, published in 1969. The book chronicles her life from age 3 through age 16, recounting an unsettled and sometimes traumatic childhood that included assault and racism.
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In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou describes her coming of age as a precocious but insecure black girl in the American South during the 1930s and subsequently in California during the 1940s. As young children, Maya and Bailey struggle with the pain of having been rejected and abandoned by their parents.
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Stereotypes of African Americans and their culture have evolved within American society dating back to the period of African enslavement during the colonial era. These stereotypes are largely connected to the persistent racism and discrimination faced by African Americans residing in the United States
Nineteenth-century minstrel shows used white actors in blackface and attire supposedly worn by African-Americans to lampoon and disparage blacks. Some nineteenth century stereotypes, such as the sambo, are now considered to be derogatory and racist. The "Mandingo" and "Jezebel" stereotypes sexualizes African-Americans as hypersexual. The Mammy archetype depicts a motherly black woman who is dedicated to her role working for a white family, a stereotype which dates back to Southern plantations. African-Americans are often stereotyped to have an unusual appetite for fried chicken, watermelon, and grape drink.
In the 1980s and following decades, emerging stereotypes of black men depicted them as drug dealers, crack addicts, hobos, and subway muggers.[1] Jesse Jackson said media portray blacks as less intelligent.[2] The magical Negro is a stock character who is depicted as having special insight or powers, and has been depicted (and criticized) in American cinema[3] In recent history, Black men are stereotyped to deadbeat fathers.[4]
Stereotypes of Black women include being depicted as welfare queens or as angry black women who are loud, aggressive, demanding, and rude.
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