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	Black Cultural Center presents 'The Confession of Stepin Fetchit' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stepin Fetchit, the stage name for Lincoln Perry, was an African-American comic character whose name has become synonymous with degrading racial stereotypes in Hollywood movies of the first half of the 20th century.
		Stepin Fetchit etched his place in history as truly the first fl movie star, and was the first fl performer to be given featured billing in movies with stars such as Will Rogers and Shirley Temple.
		The character Stepin Fetchit epitomized the fl stereotype of a shiftless, lazy servant of low intelligence and was later criticized as being a racist stereotype.
	news.uns.purdue.edu /html3month/2005/050922.Thomas.Confession.html (328 words)

	Stepin Fetchit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of American comedian and film actor Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902–November 19, 1985).
		If the Fetchit persona derives, too, from a common manipulation technique used by fls to mitigate their status by pretending to be unintelligent and fulfilling the low expectations of whites, Perry himself was not afraid to use it offscreen.
		Shuffling to Ignominy: The Tragedy of Stepin Fetchit, iUniverse, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stepin_Fetchit (650 words)

	The Coon Caricature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stepin Fetchit was born Lincoln Theodore Perry on May 30, 1892.
		Fetchit was the embodiment of the nitwit Black man. As with the Zip Coon and Urban Coon, this old-fashioned coon character could never correctly pronounce a multisyllabic word.
		In Black communities, Stepin Fetchit remains a synonym for a bowing and scraping Black man. In 1970 he sued CBS unsuccessfully for $3 million, charging defamation of character for the way he was portrayed in the television documentary Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed.
	www.ferris.edu /news/jimcrow/coon (2379 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Editor's Notes :: Stepin Fetchit, then and now (xhtml)
		Stepin Fetchit remains one of the most fascinating, infuriating, polarizing, pathetic and perplexing figures in movie history.
		He notes how often Stepin Fetchit, by pretending to be too lazy and addled to understand the simplest directions, avoids doing the white characters' work, all the while muttering subtle sarcasms in a drawl that was indecipherable to whites but clear and hilarious to fl audiences.
		Stepin Fetchit established the model of the unscrupulous fl performer, pursuing money, work, and fame by any means necessary....
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051208/EDITOR/51208001 (1453 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| Oct/Nov 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fetchit began to attack, at times fatuously and irrationally, the civil rights movement in the 1960s because it had so thoroughly denounced him as a relic, an unacceptable image for fls.
		Mel Watkins, Fetchit's biographer, repeatedly mentions his subject's ornery nature, that he was "a sly provocateur," "a prideful, race-conscious agitator for equal treatment in the entertainment field," because of his legendary, sometimes unwise battles with studio executives that eventually wrecked his career.
		Fetchit was certainly a man who thought a great deal about his place in history and the meaning of what he did.
	www.bookforum.com /archive/fall_05/early.html (1756 words)

	Be Aware - Stepin Fetchit
		Stepin did however have superb timing and excellent comic know-how and this won him the admiration of people such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
		Stepin died in Woodland Hills, California, USA on November 19th 1985 and not much is known about his personal life and whether he had a wife and children.
		As such, we have to recognise that although Stepin Fetchit compounded the stereotypical views of fls for the time, he also started the ball rolling for the fl actors we see in Hollywood today.
	www.daintycrew.com /stepinfetchit.htm (547 words)

	Biography for Stepin Fetchit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stepin Fetchit remains the most controversial movie actor in American history, other than Ronald Reagan, who as President of the United States, attempted to turn back the cultural clock to the time when Stepin's brand of minstrelry was mainstream entertainment.
		Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, who claimed a birth-date of May 30, 1902 but may have been born as early as 1892.
		Stepin Fetchit became the first African American actor to become a millionaire, but he mishandled his fortune through lavish over-spending and was bankrupt by 1947.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0275297/bio (1307 words)

	AOL BlackVoices Entertainment Feature Story- BV Q&A: Mel Watkins on Stepin Fetchit - AOL Black Voices
		Stepin Fetchit was the motion picture industry's first fl star, the first to sign a long-term contract with a major studio, and the first to lead a bling-filled lifestyle.
		Stepin Fetchit's comedy becomes irony, it's an exaggeration that becomes a parody of a caricature that America had accepted.
		Stepin Fetchit was working in a tradition that many other actors were working with at the time.
	blackvoices.aol.com /black_entertainment/featurecanvas/_a/bv-qanda-mel-watkins-on-stepin-fetchit/20051018145009990001 (703 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit - 2/23/06
		Fetchit was born Lincoln Theodore Perry in 1902 in Key West, Florida to a West Indian family.
		Fetchit goes on to describe the extremely clever manner in which he hilariously convinces his director that his lazy and ignorant persona is real, and uses it to expand his role and controvert the script to his advantage.
		Fetchit does not grant us the pathos of Fetchit’s downward spiral during the decades after the end of the World War II (although it is not something that a man with the dignity with which Fetchit is portrayed would want to discuss with us).
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/nj/nj138.html (920 words)

	Biography of Stepin Fetchit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stepin Fetchit (May 30, 1902 - November 19, 1985) (real name Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry) was a comedy actor whose name has become synonymous with degrading racial stereotypes in Hollywood movies of the first half of the 20th century.
		Because of the degrading image of African Americans portrayed by Stepin Fetchit, his movies are rarely screened today, and they have not seen a wide release on video.
		Nonetheless, film historians state that he was a talented comedian, and his career was so successful that he is cited as the first fl actor to become a millionaire.
	biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /f/Fetchit_Stepin.html (208 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Retracing black actor's path from vaudeville to vilification
		When the controversial actor Stepin Fetchit died in 1985 at the age of 83, the man whose slow-talking, sleepy-eyed, shuffling buffoonery made him Hollywood's first fl movie star was an outcast among his own people, a discredit to his race in the opinion of many.
		At the height of his career in the mid-'30s, Fetchit earned upward of $2,500 a week under contract with Fox studio, while many of his peers were lucky to make a 10th of that amount.
		That Fetchit achieved any sort of wealth or lasting fame was astonishing, given the hardships fls faced in every aspect of life in the first half of the 20th century.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002660935_stepinfetchit05.html?syndication=rss (853 words)

	Powell's Books - Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry by Mel Watkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stepin Fetchit, Watkins convincingly contends, carried on this tradition of subversive comedy and used it to undermine the very stereotypes he portrayed.
		In 1927, adopting the name Stepin Fetchit, he broke into movies, appearing in the silent film 'In Old Kentucky.' After winning accolades for his performances he was signed by Fox in 1928 to a long-term contract, the first ever extended to a fl entertainer.
		But Stepin Fetchit was a box-office draw, and that, combined with Perry's aggressive lobbying for jobs, compelled Hollywood to resurrect him repeatedly.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0375423826 (1427 words)

	Playahata.com Latest News » Stephin Fetchit not a race traitor today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		If Stepin Fetchit could have written his own legacy, he’d have described himself as a pioneer in American cinema, a comedian whose talents helped secure a place for fl faces in the formative years of talkies.
		Fetchit’s character is hauled before a judge, played by Will Rogers, on charges of stealing chickens.
		Stepin Fetchit’s tragedy, of course, is the poison of racism, which stains America’s 21st century as it stained the 20th, 19th, 18th and 17th.
	playahata.com /hatablog/?p=911 (673 words)

	Stepin Fetchit The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
		Stepin Fetchit, born Lincoln Perry, was cast as Jonah is “Steamboat Round the Bend,” released nine days after Will’s death in an Alaskan plane crash.
		Stepin was on the crew of the Claremore Queen, the broken down riverboat in the 1935 movie.
		Stepin Fetchit suffered a massive stroke in 1976 and lived out life in a temperamental state in the Motion Picture Country Home in California, where he died in 1985.
	www.willrogers.com /new/articles/book_reviews/stepin_fetchit/perry.html (529 words)

	Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune
		Widely praised as a comic genius during his heyday, Stepin Fetchit is known now only as a race traitor.
		"Stepin Fetchit," by Mel Watkins, a former editor at The New York Times Book Review, is the more thorough and authoritative; "Shuffling to Ignominy," by Champ Clark, a correspondent for People magazine, is slighter but livelier.
		As Stepin Fetchit, Perry walked away with films like "In Old Kentucky," "Hearts in Dixie" and "Show Boat." But as docile as Stepin Fetchit was on screen, Perry himself was demanding and argumentative with directors and producers.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/12/12/features/bookmar.php (668 words)

	Rehabilitating Stepin Fetchit. - By Armond White - Slate Magazine
		That must mean we've come a long way from the period when mass media trafficked in racist fl stereotypes, because Stepin Fetchit was one of the primary purveyors of that iconography.
		What Watkins is suggesting here is that Stepin Fetchit's act continued the "trickster" tradition of slaves: outwitting their oppressors by pretending to be slow-witted and lazy, and thereby exploiting whites' sense of superiority.
		Watkins laments that Perry's identity became confused with the figure of Stepin Fetchit, and that in this ignominy a misunderstood artist was sent to oblivion.
	www.slate.com /id/2131457 (1620 words)

	Afrocentricnews
		He says of the African-American actor of the '30s, known for playing dim- witted, foot-shuffling characters degrading to fls: "His name has the onus of Uncle Tom-ism, but that's not who he was." Insists the Oscar winner, "He was a man of many dimensions.
		And as for Fetchit's characterizations, "all he did was `Mask of the Minstrel'-type stuff.
		Fetchit became a Muslim in the '60s and sued CBS for defamation in 1970, claiming the network showed clips of his work "out of context." He died 15 years later.
	www.afrocentricnews.com /html/fetchit_gossett.html (718 words)

	DIMPLES + MAD HOT BALLROOM - DVDs
		Fetchit's Cicero is essentially a pack animal--his performance is nothing less than the personification of a donkey.
		The Fetchit persona no longer registers with audiences as actively subjugating fls, but rather as violently penetrating our comfort zone and forcing us to acknowledge our complacency in accepting their subjugation.
		Fetchit is more than a footnote to the film, but he's not quite the central subject, either.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/madhotdimples.htm (2203 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Stepin Fetchit, by Mel Watkins, Paperback, Reprinted Edition
		Stepin Fechit, is an iconic figure in the history of American popular culture.
		Stepin Fetchit (n, Lincoln Perry in 1902) was arguably our first fl movie star, with credits in films like Judge Priest.
		Far from lazy, Fetchit was both ambitious and analytical, aggressively seeking film roles, trying to develop projects, even writing an advice column for fls hoping to break into movies.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&endeca=1&isbn=1400096766 (874 words)

	NPR : Stepin Fetchit, Hollywood's First Black Film Star
		Watkins says that like most Americans, he thought of Stepin Fetchit as a symbol of the negative side of the African-American experience.
		They believed the Stepin Fetchit character was keeping white America from viewing fls as capable of joining the mainstream.
		Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5245089 (2092 words)

	Pantheon \| Catalog \| Stepin Fetchit by Mel Watkins
		Stepin Fetchit, is an iconic figure in the history of American popular culture.
		But his achievements were eventually acknowledged: in 1976 the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP gave him its Special Image Award for having opened the door for many a succeeding African American film star, and in 1978 he was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
		Stepin Fetchit is a shadow history of performance as survival." –Harper's
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375423826 (403 words)

	Black skins, silver screen: two early stars of Hollywood lived with stereotypes but held their own Black Issues Book ...
		Stepin Fetchit's lifestyle, at the height of his career, paralleled today's young rap artists--with expensive clothes, foreign automobiles, and beautiful women.
		Fetchit attired himself in royal fashion, not at all like the characters in his films with ill-fitting attire and high-water pants.
		At the same time Stepin Fetchit reached stardom, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke and the "New Negro" were coming out of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties; and the Harlem Renaissance and forcing their voice on the American Landscape.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_6_7/ai_n15858793 (597 words)

	essay_5
		Stepin Fetchit was a fl American actor who became successful in the thirties and forties.
		The reason is that Stepin Fetchit (a nom du profession, one assumes) had a schtick that made him very successful.
		Yet Fetchit himself argued that he opened a door that was previously closed.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /movies/essay_five.html (863 words)

	Governor's Office - Black History Month - Biography of Stepin Fetchit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was born on May 30, 1892 (although he preferred to say he was born in 1902) in Key West, Florida.
		They performed a minstrel act called 'Step n Fetchit: Two Dancing Fools', and it was rumored he took his stage name of Fetchit from a favorite racehorse.
		When he got to Hollywood, Stepin got roles in which he played slow, dim-witted fools characterized by bugging out eyes and slow speech.
	www.myflorida.com /myflorida/governorsoffice/black_history/stepin_fetchit.html (488 words)

	Stepin Fetchit - Moviefone
		African American comedic character actor Stepin Fetchit, born Lincoln Perry, left his home in 1914 to pursue a show-business career.
		Many fl characters in the movies were based on Stepin Fetchit, including Stymie...
		Stepin Fetchit - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Stepin Fetchit Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/stepin-fetchit/23285/main (126 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		If he later won fame as a semi-incoherent mumbler—and Fetchit insisted, once he’d become a star, that his published statements be rendered in dialect, to maintain the illusion—his justification belied the linguistic pose: “Sometimes those script writin’ men come to me and say Ah ain’t readin’ their lines clear enough.
		In 1930, it was reported that Fetchit planned to produce his own screenplay, “The Dancing Fool,” which would “expel the cotton scenes” and “bring out the modern Negro”; with the movies he was actually filming, however, he was continuously late to the set or outright missing, in a wreck or in a brawl.
		Fetchit’s late years, mostly spent playing tawdry clubs, were a continual fight against this way of thinking, and his few victories were hardly less bitter than his losses.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/051212crbo_books (2760 words)

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