The Vicious Imperialist The age of imperialism was a period of time when the sinister creatures dispersed around the world under the cloak of darkness. Holding sharp-penetrating bullet guns, the white, pale European vampires went around to drain the citizen’s blood, sabotage the lands and haunt down the natural resources. The world was shattered into pieces and all that left were anarchy, choler, misery and resentments. Imperialism was no doubt malicious and had only negative impacts on the colonized
with ugliness. Morrison illustrates this in saying that Pauline was never able again “to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty”. The cinema in Hollywood in the early 20th century was going through a ‘golden age’ in which it ‘was one of the most visible businesses in America, and most people were attending films at least once a week’, African-Americans however featured minimally in the films, and if they did it was very rarely in a positive manner, this certainly