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Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham''s Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them. The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day.

The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books), Irvin S. Cobb (Judge Priest''s houseman Jeff Poindexter), Roark Bradford (Widow Duck, the plantation matriarch), Hugh Wiley (Wildcat Marsden, the war veteran who traveled the country in the company of his goat) and Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden (radio''s Amos ''n'' Andy).

Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction

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      Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/28/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786474103, 978-0786474103
      ISBN10: 0786474106

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      Book Synopsis

      Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham''s Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them. The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day.

      The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books), Irvin S. Cobb (Judge Priest''s houseman Jeff Poindexter), Roark Bradford (Widow Duck, the plantation matriarch), Hugh Wiley (Wildcat Marsden, the war veteran who traveled the country in the company of his goat) and Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden (radio''s Amos ''n'' Andy).

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