Racial Stereotypes

Cartoon called an "attack" on Indigenous Australians
Reinforcing various stereotypes with images has existed for decades and it continues to do so in today’s world. Racial stereotypes against African Americans are common in images in the past and still today that reinforces racist and negative thinking towards them. I chose this image because it shows racial stereotyping towards African American in various ways. First it shows the son as disrespectful and in trouble with the law, reinforcing the belief that African Americans are lawbreakers and troublemakers. Then there is the father, who doesn’t know his son, is presumably drinking a beer, reinforcing the idea that African American males don’t raise their children and that most African American children don’t know their father. Finally, there is the apparel of both father and son: they both have no shoes, the son has dreads, and the father is in dirty apparel with an unclean beard. This reinforces the belief that African Americans can’t and won’t make anything of themselves and are and the bottom of society. Overall this image is filled with racial stereotypes showing how prevalent it still is within images.