Consequences Of The Incarceration Of African Americans

Furthermore, in other major productions, criminal activities captivated the big screen and introduced African Americans as robbers, gangsters, prostitutes, drug dealers, and addicts. Directors would showcase black actors as being aggressive and engaging in disputes with other cast members. These senseless on-screen acts would lead to them violently beating up someone thus further leading to incarceration. By putting a black male or female in jail is a false accusation that all colored people behave in a certain manner and will end up behind bars. After an individual is incarcerated, the stereotypical implication could be that of a gangster. For example, in the 1989 film Harlem Nights, Sugar Ray, played by Eddie Murphy owns a gambling shack.