Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Visual Racial Stereotypes in HWA's Early Days

Recently I found this fascinating documentary, The Distorted Image, about cartoons that employed racial stereotypes in the period 1850-1922. It is from the website of the Anti-Defamation League. Here are the links for it: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

While watching this the thought occurred to me that this was the world in which HWA was born in and grew up in. Alas, he never got over the racialist thinking that was so pervasive in his younger days.

1 comment:

  1. I am still trying to figure out how WWCG got the 3 races out of the 3 sons of Noah. Even if Israel was all white, as soon as the gentiles entered the New Testament church, race was over.

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