Your best source of information on early silent animation is Donald Crafton at the Wisconsin Center for Film/Theater Research, 6040 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706, phone: (608) 262-9706. His book may be helpful: Before Mickey, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. Some films I know of are: WinsorM McCay's "Little Nemo"--stereotyped African savage Fleischer Bros.'s "The Chinaman"-_in the Out of the Inkwell series Also try the Colonel Heeza Liar series, whose jungle explorer met several stereotyped tribespeople. For secondary resources, try: Barcus, F. Earle. Images of Life on Children's Television. New York: Praeger, 1982. Berger, Jan et al. Coalition Against Racism and Sexism. "Letter to the Editor" The Soho Weekly, Sept. 4, 1975. Lawling, John. (Regent University) "Hollywood Shuffle: Images of African-Americans in the Animated Film," Paper presented at the Society for Animation Studies conference, Ottawa, Oct. 1990. Shale, Richard. Donald Duck Joins Up. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982. Shull, Michael & Witt, David. Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films. McFarland & Co., 1987. Good luck. Bill Mikulak, University of Pennsylvania