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To engage a large audience, Staples appeals to readers with his use to two different points of views throughout the essay: societal views and black views. Staples tries to connect with the readers by giving examples of unconscious thoughts that run through the minds of most people when in the same situation as the “white women.” In his opening sentence, Staples calls the women a “victim.” In her own eyes, she herself was “victim” due to the influence of generalized stereotypes presented in our culture. She becomes quick to judge based on Staples appearance: his skin tone. Because of his color, his every action becomes nothing but threats and anxiety on the women. “She casted a back worried glance. To her, the youngish black- broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

This film broke the perspective of African American women and showed that a person of color could be the mastermind of a big project. Hidden Figures revolved around

Throughout American history, people of color have been treated as inferior to whites in everything from beauty standards to criminal records. While this tactic provides validity to more whites, it also further divides society, building a barrier many don’t realize they create. The film discusses the subconscious biases many people have against those with darker skin, immediately discounting them as humans and demoting them to a lower place in society. Research has shown this through a test which asks participants to associate white with good and African American with bad, and then flips this to associating African-American with good and white with bad. For someone with an implicit bias, the latter task will be more difficult, time consuming, and laden with error as compared to the former. The acceptability of appearance-based judgement widens the color line, disregarding all people of non-European ancestry, and making the quest for validation near impossible for many. Nevertheless, the human race has proved that it will do anything to find validation, as noted by Gunnar Myrdal. “My general opinion of human beings is that they are very confused in their mind. Their public opinions are certainly not their private opinions” (Smith 0:49-1:00). People follow those whose opinions have been marked as valid, even though they may not agree. To them, the glory of their own validation outweighs the value of another human being; they have no qualms about changing their

The piece on African American woman in the civil rights movement was n important piece which highlighted the many positives and negatives of the civil rights movement. Such writing helps to illustrate the imperfections in this movement which isolated the most vulnerable group of humans in the 60's. Much news press was focused on the work of MLK and his great strength to organize the masses but what wasn't mentioned was how used his male authoritative role in the church to put woman in a place of submission to their male counter parts.

Family Guy, an animated sitcom produced by Seth MacFarlane, has humored millions of viewers since it first premiered in 1999. It captivates viewers through its satirical content, which not only tackles issues that are prominent and relevant to its audience, but also entertains them. Despite the initial cancellations of the show, Family Guy has successfully been revived and maintains steady viewership. Matter of fact, it has been nominated for numerous Emmys, the most notable being Outstanding Comedy Series. It also won a multitude of awards for Animated Show (FIX THIS). The show continues to successfully address topics in a humorous and insightful way and is currently airing its fourteenth season. One topic that Family Guy frequently satirizes is racism/white supremacy. Family Guy has an interesting take on satirizing this theme, which in turn differentiates the show from other similar animated sitcoms. It sheds light on a new perspective and highlights key points that are typically overlooked. In addition, the show does not hesitate to challenge stereotypes and start controversies. The show is committed to providing fresh and unique insights of an issue (to an issue??). In the episodes, “Baby Got Black” and “Cool Hand Peter,” for example, Family Guy challenges the established notions of racism and white supremacy. It does this by shifting the focus from what society has (developed us to believ? to what we should believe)….SOMETHING.

I think the purpose for creating this movie was to show how different African American women joined together and fight against the men that abuse them and their children. Alice Walker experienced extreme poverty and racism as the daughter of sharecroppers. Also to show how African Americans are neglected and discriminated for who they are.

Racism in a pre-Civil Right Era was violent, abhorrently blatant, and prevalent to a fault. Post Jim-Crow, racism has diminished so much so that it barely exists; or so society likes to believe. In actuality, racism has been transformed under a different lens where racism still stands as the structures and functions of American society but have been so normalized and legalized that white Americans feel as the country has progressed in terms of racism. This lens, one that Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has defined as colorblind in his book Racism without Racists, explain how racism still dictate how people of color live and suffer in contrast to their white American counterparts despite the racial “progress” that society so desperately want to believe. Colorblind racism can be defined as the belief or behavior that racism no longer exists at all or like it once did in the past by disregarding how race plays a role in minorities lives and thus continuing to prop up the same racist structures and foundations that was at play decades ago before the alleged “progress” of the post civil rights era. What makes colorblind ideology a problem at its basis is held within the fact that white Americans know that race exists yet they both subconsciously and willfully ignore how the sociopolitical and economic aspects of the nation work to keep white Americans ahead while minorities struggle to survive in a world that essentially ignores them. A prime example of colorblind racism in a modern

represents race, gender and sexuality in many ways throughout the movie. to start I want to begin

What I also found to be quite interesting and perhaps a weakness of the film, was the sense of performative racism that four of the main white characters utilize and how the makers of the film appeal to such a phenomenon through symbolisms as well. In the movie, there seems to be two main kinds of racism the characters exhibit, one of them being blatant racism and another being subtle racism through microaggressions. For example, Katherine experiences blatantly racist and misogynistic behavior from her coworkers, especially from Paul Stafford, the lead engineer (making groupthink much easier) and Ruth, the only other woman working in the office. On the other hand, Al Harrison and John Glenn appeal to the subtler sides of racism and performative white pity, Glenn going out of his way to shake the hands of the computers as the film attempted to paint a positive, “not-all-whites” picture of inclusion, acceptance and tolerance, a kind of racism that almost all of the white people in the film come to, by its end. Examples of this can be seen in scenes like the one in which Al Harrison smashes down the “coloreds” and “whites” restroom signs as if implying that doing so will abolish all racial inequalities with a couple of blows of blunt force. One could infer it seems, that paired with the groundbreaking stories of these three women, white people being decent human

A heavy theme that is explored in this movie is expectations set for children by their parents and the children have wishes of their own, while also dealing with racism and prejudice towards outside religious beliefs. In the play R.A.W. written by Diana Son explores expectations of Asian American set by society. The play is written so the audience can bring their own voice to the male antagonist, and let the voices of different Asian Women tell there stories of how they were treated. The expectations they deal with almost on a daily basis are very racist and rude.

Prompt 1: Provide examples from the film that relate to differences in working-class and middle-class White Americans and the expectations set for both groups. In particular, show evidence of “primary control” and “secondary control” as seen in the film with these two groups.

Hidden Figures captures the racism against blacks in the 1960s but shows the women who see the light at the end of the tunnel and keep fighting. Of Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy it seemed because Katherine was moved to a white office area, she faced discrimination every minute, from the bathroom, to coffee, and even stood up about the pay. Although it seems racism is shown very clearly so many believe that the African Americans did not handle it well, because sometimes they did not respect the white men and women there. Whenever segregation is talked about, it seems bathrooms always come up.

An ideology is a system of concepts which attempts to describe reality. Ideologies are established because truth is often too complex to be understood. They also imitate a bias and works for the benefit of a specific group. Some ideologies are well stranded in reality, whereas others are totally detached from reality and are only possible to explain in terms of the emotional and mental inspirations of its advocates. Ideologies either over-simplify reality or entirely alter it. Yet, it is at times suitable to speak mostly in ideological terms in order to make a point. Based on the supposition that gender, ethnicity and class are directly experienced, they are not only distinct traits but "something which is accomplished in interaction with others" who, further, condense these achievements responsible within established settings (West and Fenstermaker, 1997: 64). According to Collins these contained constructions to "difference," ignores "the power relations and material disparities that create domination" (Collins, 1997: 75). This simple justification is insufficient for other reasons as well, which arises from its basic ‘Race, Gender and Class’ assumptions; i.e., that each person has a race, gender, class identity, and that the impacts of all collective relations are instantaneously "gendered," "raced," and "classed" (West and Fenstermaker, 1997: 60). Therefore, these variances will be further discussed with reference to two popular American TV shows including Six Feet Under

In this analysis, I will discuss how the intersectionality of class and gender played a role in violence within the film on both people from low economic status, as well as the ones from a high economic status. I will also talk about the role of shame and humiliation within this film, and the type of wilding involved that helped create this environment.