One of the issues of Buckwheat, Farnia and Stymie is why they were ever in these films in the first place...

"White Culture Expectations of Black Youth: Can't They All Just Be Buckwheat?" (excerpt)

One of the issues of Buckwheat, Farnia and Stymie is why they were ever in these films in the first place: after all, the shows were a celebration of the impetuous freedom coddled in White Youth. The answer, however, is obvious: The White Culture found it necessary, whenever possible, to exhibit blacks as examples of their place in White Society. To Whites these shorts were a comedy; to Blacks, they were a warning...

Depicting the blacks capable of being among whites as children bespoke of the inherent fear of what these black children would grow into: the dangerous black teenager and the rebellious black male adult. Black Innocence could only exist within the boundaries placed by their White companions...

The Fear of the Black teenager is obvious when one realizes how little he is seen in films of this day: the only blacks permissible were uneducated children and submissive minstrel adults. The Black Teenage years were to be silently feared, for they would push against the constraints of White-defined acceptable behavior....

I am Laslo.

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