The Lazy Black

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Background

The legal and social status of African Americans has influenced decades-old ephemera and modern incarnations of African American stereotypes such as Mammy, Mandingo, Sapphire, Uncle Tom, and watermelon. Many stereotypes were developed during the trans-Atlantic slave trade's heyday and were used to further commodify black bodies and validate slavery's company. An enslaved human, for example, who is forced to work from sunrise to sunset under duress, cannot be characterized as lazy. However, traits such as laziness, submissiveness, backwardness, lewdness, treachery, and dishonesty have long been associated with African Americans.[1]

The stereotype and perception among whites that blacks are lazy in comparison to whites remains one of the lasting legacies of Jim Crow cultural subordination of black Americans in the United States.

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https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/substantial-racial-stereotyping-toward-young-children-of-color-found-among-white-adults-who-work-with-them/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23363508#?seq=1

References

  1. Popular and Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans. National Museum of African American History & Culture. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
  2. Darity, William A. ; Hamilton, Darrick. Are Blacks Lazy?. American Economic Association. 12 November 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2021.