The brute caricature portrays black men as innately savage, animalistic, destructive, and criminal - deserving punishment, maybe death. This brute is a fiend, a sociopath, an anti-social menace. Black brutes are depicted as hideous, terrifying predators who target helpless victims, especially white women. During slavery the dominant caricatures of blacks - Mammy, Coon, Tom, and […]

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