African American Identity Analysis

The same case happened to Frozen. Even though LGBT and same-sex marriage is approved in certain countries (e.g. America) and Disney is doing a deed in spreading the message, it is argued that such content is not appropriate to show children as they are “too young to comprehend”. (Coca

According to source C, When the railroad testified in court they said the segregated train cars were the same. However, the railroad did not back this up with any evidence so you can not be sure it is true. Also, looking at other segregated areas the train cars must have been worse if you compare it to bathrooms and water fountains for blacks. According to source A, buses were very segregated deep in the south. Rosa Parks does not give up her seat to a white person and arrested just for not giving up her seat, the back of the bus is also rarely cleaned and the seats are closer together which gives little leg room for the people.

Kerry James Marshall, a black artist who focuses on portraying less discrimination, made an observation: “’When they did introduce the Black Panther in Fantastic Four [in 1966], I became acutely aware that the black superhero was a strange phenomenon – an exception to the rule. Then I started noticing the same thing everywhere else. Black figures were never the central subjects in art-history books’” (Sooke). African American symbolic heroic figures had not been introduced to art or society until 1966.

It portrays African Americans and slavery as happy and cheerful using really demeaning stereotypes such as the Mammy. Tropes are characterizations of plantation slaves from a white person perspective that started in the 19th century. There are many tropes found in movies, television and books. The Mammy trope is considered a stereotype since she has played a significant role in racist images, and perceptions worldwide.

“You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if you become just like me you’ll be free, bullsh*t.” (James 192) In this quote it uses racism to show the problems involved in the country at the time, showing how the whites often told the black women what to do and how to do it, and telling them that they’ll be free because of it, and as you can see the black women didn’t agree. Another factor that went into Jamaica’s problems was sexism. “Woman breed baby, but man can only make Frankenstein.

Firstly the color in L.Frank Baum “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz” I feel impacts the novel in a big way although I have never seen the movie the novel was enough for me I can't picture every conversation and journey the characters are going through in my head everything from Dorothy getting caught up in the cyclone to the good witch of the south Glinda being killed everything in the novel I could see in vivid colors although I haven't seen the movie the novel seem to have more better impact to me when it comes to color especially for me because I have never read this novel until now in my program of Educere with these colors in the novel it helped me know how the characters looked like for example Dorothy who is the main character in the novel it states that“ Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many items of washing, it was still a pretty frock. The girl washed carefully, dressed herself in the clean gingham, and tied her pink sunbonnet on her head. ”(Baum Chapter 3) with these few lines I can already picture how dirty Dorothy must have been

but I do not think about what that means nor what means for my other identities nearly as much as I probably should. While the captured Africans, repressed Native Americans, and the European settlers that fragmented them are all parts of my ancestry and have led to my current identity, my identity now is so vastly different from their modern counterparts. Let me begin with the dominate culture that makes up the bulk of my identity, African

This is because whiteness shares an essential feature of property, “the right to exclude” (1714). Black people, then, are legally excluded from accessing whiteness and the rights and privileges associated with

Producers of the newest superhero movie, Black Panther, “check off a number of identity boxes with its almost exclusively black cast and a cohort of strong female characters” but still were chided because of the lack of gay and lesbian characters (Richardson). Many people anticipated the film and had high hopes of it being the first marvel film to “feature an openly gay character” (Richardson). Despite the record that Marvel Studios has set with making the most diverse superhero movie, there are still critics that say it’s not diverse enough. The arguments that Hollywood, even with the lengths they have been taken to share all different cultures, still lacks the representation of women and people of color still exists. However even with people arguing for even more diversity the film industry is unmistakably making incredible progress and is continuing to create more diversity, undoubtedly heading in the right direction.

Othello IO Tinatin Kakabadze Period F 9/1/15 Word Count: 1222 “Race” in the context of Elizabethan England Race, in Elizabethan Era, which was from 1485 to 1603 and was known as the Golden Age of England, was usually ignored. People with dark skin were thought of as exotic and bizarre, though they had no rights as they were forced into England despite many protests. Due to the way North/West Africans clothed themselves, many people in Elizabethan England would call them ‘devils’ and other obscene things. Though, they soon grew a few rights and weren't ridiculed as much, but were still thought of as a lower race.

I acknowledge that movies don 't always include everything from the book it is based on but I really feel that some scenes should have been included. For example, Janie’s family history isn 't really involved in the film. Also, if you were to just watch the movie you wouldn 't understand why Nanny forces Janie to marry

Their real name becomes irrelevant, and they now are "felicia". Words or phrases similar to those are spoken languages that a black person will understand. AAE is a another way for black people to express themselves, they might not know the meaning of certain words that people use on SAE, but the same goes the other way around. People who speak in SAE may not know much about AAE, but yet SAE is considered the proper language to speak in, they are discriminating against the way African- American speak because they do not understand it, that is why I believe that AAE should not be treated as a separate language.

Eyes on the Prize The ultimate goal was to be treated as an equal among Caucasians. They did not want to be seen by their color, but as an equal human being. One reason this couldn’t happen is because of Jim Crow Laws.

Do you agree with August Wilson about Color Blind casting and it denying the humanity of those actors playing roles written for white actors in the American Theater? I don't agree with August Wilson about color blind casting, since in acting many people with different cultural backgrounds undertake roles that sometimes do not fit with their cultural backgrounds. However, this is what attracts the audience to watch the different roles and characters that people take. Switching roles also created unique movies, since not everybody could have the unique imitations of such roles.

Disney movies often show very romantic and nice stories but if you look back they often have many inaccuracies. Such is the case with Disney’s version of Pocahontas. The story has many inaccuracies and children should not be allowed to view it based on those inaccuracies. Disney Pocahontas is very inaccurate because it does not show the accurate amount of death, it does not accurately represent Indians or Englishmen, and it has many historical errors.