Editing Stepin Fetchit (section)

==Legacy==
Perry spawned imitators, such as [[Willie Best]] ("Sleep 'n Eat") and [[Mantan Moreland]], the scared, wide-eyed manservant of [[Charlie Chan]]. Perry had actually played a manservant in the ''Charlie Chan'' series before Moreland in 1935's ''[[Charlie Chan in Egypt]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sennwald |first=Andre |title=Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 24, 1935 |access-date=October 14, 2011 |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940CE7DC143FE23ABC4C51DFB066838E629EDE}}</ref>

Perry appeared in one 1930 ''[[Our Gang]]'' short subject, ''A Tough Winter,'' at the end of the 1929–30 season. Perry signed a contract to star with the gang in nine films for the 1930–31 season and be part of the ''Our Gang'' series, but for some unknown reason, the contract fell through, and the gang continued without Perry. Previous to Perry entering films, the ''Our Gang'' shorts had employed several black child actors, including [[Allen Hoskins]], Jannie Hoskins, [[Ernie Morrison|Ernest Morrison]], and [[Eugene Jackson]]. In the sound ''Our Gang'' era, black actors [[Matthew Beard (American actor)|Matthew Beard]] and [[Billie Thomas]] were featured. The black performers' personas in ''Our Gang'' shorts were the polar opposites of Perry's persona.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/04/26/the-annotated-mad-men-farina-stymie-and-buckwheat|title=The Annotated MAD MEN: Farina, Stymie And Buckwheat|first=Devin|last=Faraci|date=April 26, 2014|website=Birth.Movies.Death.|access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2005/12/back_in_blackface.html|title=Back in Blackface|first=Armond|last=White|date=December 5, 2005|access-date=June 1, 2017|website=Slate.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/stepin-fetchit/|title=Stepin Fetchit - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times|website=projects.latimes.com|access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/stepin-fetchit|title=Stepin Fetchit - Hollywood Walk of Fame|website=Walkoffame.com|access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref><!-- |access-date=2016-07-21 | -->

In the 2005 book ''Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry'',<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-bxuXGSuXgC&q=Fetchit&pg=PP9|title=Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry|first=Mel|last=Watkins|date=July 14, 2010|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=9780307547507|access-date=June 1, 2017|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/books/titles/138360032/stepin-fetchit-the-life-and-times-of-lincoln-perry|title=Stepin Fetchit|website=Npr.org|date=November 25, 2024 }}</ref> African-American critic [[Mel Watkins (American writer)|Mel Watkins]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vindy.com/news/2005/nov/20/stepin-fetchit-biographer-defends-role-of-black/|title=Vindy.com - STEPIN FETCHIT Biographer defends role of black film actor|website=Vindy.com|access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.colgate.edu/2010/12/mel-watkins-62-explores-evolut.html|title=Mel Watkins '62 explores progression of black humor - Colgate University News|date=December 14, 2010|website=colgate.edu|access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/books/review/caricature-acting.html|title=Caricature Acting|first=Dana|last=Stevens|date=November 27, 2005|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> argued that the character of Stepin Fetchit was not truly lazy or simple-minded,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/books/how-a-black-entertainers-shuffle-actually-blazed-a-trail.html|title=How a Black Entertainer's Shuffle Actually Blazed a Trail|first=John|last=Strausbaugh|date=December 7, 2005|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> but instead a prankster who deliberately tricked his white employers so that they would do the work instead of him. This [[shuck and jive|technique]], which developed during [[American slavery]], was referred to as "putting on old [[Master (form of address)|massa]]", and it was a kind of [[Confidence trick|con art]] with which black audiences of the time would have been familiar.<ref name="npr" /><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/12/behind-the-mask|title=Behind the Mask|magazine=The New Yorker|date=December 5, 2005 |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/retracing-black-actors-path-from-vaudeville-to-vilification/|title=Retracing black actor's path from vaudeville to vilification|date=December 5, 2005|website=seattletimes.com|access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref>

=== Awards and honors ===
Fetchit [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#F|has a star]] on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].

In 1976, despite popular aversion to his character, the [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] chapter of the [[NAACP]] awarded Perry a special [[NAACP Image Award]]. Two years later, he was inducted into the [[Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame]].