University of Kansas: Hollywood Depictions Of Black Male Teachers Stick To Stereotypes, Tropes, Analysis Shows
November 02, 2022
November 02, 2022
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Nov. 2 (TNSjou) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:
Morgan Freeman has given many powerful, memorable performances. His role as Mr. Clark, a New Jersey-based high school principal known for dispensing authoritarian discipline in "Lean on Me," is certainly memorable, but that depiction and many others of Black male teachers are based on prejudiced tropes about Black families that were generated from 20th-century social science research - . . .
Morgan Freeman has given many powerful, memorable performances. His role as Mr. Clark, a New Jersey-based high school principal known for dispensing authoritarian discipline in "Lean on Me," is certainly memorable, but that depiction and many others of Black male teachers are based on prejudiced tropes about Black families that were generated from 20th-century social science research - . . .