History“The American film arose from white representations of blacks” Rogin (1996)Rogin (1996) argues that American films became popular from images popular at the time of painting of Caucasians an image of African Americans using the well-known "Blackface". "Maafa 21" is a film directed by Mark Crutcher released in 2009; this film examines the history of African Americans immediately after slavery and how they struggled with labels and were classified with different types of offensive names. This documentary is a study in how superiors were supposedly doing their best to eliminate race, dehumanizing African Americans thus making "average white people" believe that they are a burden to America. Although Mark Crutcher's views are quite extreme, much of what his studies mention about the labeling and antagonism of African Americans is present in the films. In the early twentieth century, silent cinema made use of racial stereotypes, racist slurs, and racist cosmetology; it was very common to see stories about the inferior race Denzin (2002) page 22. Films of the early 1910s and 1920s had many African American characters actually played by white actors. Hearts and Apartments (1911) and Birth of a Nation (1915). These are just a few of the many films of that era that portrayed black characters as submissive, narrow-minded, criminal, dangerous, buffoonish, or animalistic. Duke University Website (2007)In the Roaring Twenties blackface was extremely popular in cinema, films such as The Jazz Singer (1927) proved to be a hit at the time. Rogin (1996) Studies the relationship between Blackface and Americanization, in his book “Black Face, White Noise” where we soon discover how Americans managed to spread their opinions about A...... middle of paper ..... . is that people like to watch other people they can identify with, which means people pay more attention when the person on screen is recognizable. If that were the case, that would mean that, according to statistics, there are more Caucasian viewers than any other race, so the money would go towards Caucasian representations, etc. Disney's first African-American princess, Tiana, was introduced in 2009, this made people believe that "the color barrier is breaking down in Hollywood." Most people can still see the thin line between Hollywood's "new" attitude toward race and their "old" attitude toward race. television has not signaled the arrival of a post-racial Hollywood any more than the election of Barack Obama in 2008 marked the end of America's 400-year-old racial drama.” Duke University website (2007)