The Buck is Back …….and Baaaddderrr Than Ever! Scene 1: Outside a ticket box office in a suburban movie theater in 1967. About a dozen white couples patiently wait in line to purchase tickets to the “progressive” new film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner by Stanley Kramer. Camera then focuses on a movie poster, which portrays Sidney Poitier amongst an all white cast smiling contently. As the decade of the 1960’s came to a close, America …showed first 75 words of 1827 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1827 total…of his revolutionary message, and turned it into an easily recognizable, audience friendly objectification. The genre’s originally groundbreaking hero ultimately served to reinforce the classic stereotype of the brutal black buck: an oversexed, barbaric, savage, frenzied, lustful black man. As Donald Bogle states about the self-coined “Age of the Buck”, “Often enough old stereotypes resurface, simply dressed in new garb to look modern, hip, provocative, and politically relevant” (Bogle 232). Scene 5: Fade out. “The End”