“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” is a television show that first aired on October 07, 2008. Although, the show has changed cast members over the years, the identified six elite African American females on “The Real housewives of Atlanta” are in the age range from 30-50 years of age. By the name of Kandi Burruss, Cynthia Bailey, Phadrea Parks, Porsha Williams, Nene Leakes, and Kenya Moore. These young ladies are the Atlanta housewives. Although, five out of the six have husbands and four out of the six had children, their viewers may relate to the women’s situations. The everyday woman is being family oriented, career driven and being successfully empowered as African American women. It influences other African American women in their opportunities …show more content…
The group of women from a racial construct become successful from housewives to bosses owning their own empires. The women’s concept of being ordinary compelled the women to further their education and careers. As for the attorney and funeral director, super model, former stripper and actress, singer, and a former housewife of a professional athlete current talk host. The women potential already had a sense of talent and the ambition to become successful. They inspiring others at home, moms, housewives, and everyday career woman to enhance their lifestyles.
Through landing positions the women were in a position to build their own empires by mastering and exploring their options in other areas to residually maintain the wealth in their financial status by branding a name. They built a community amongst women through mutual connections while recognizing other’s abilities through engagement of social networking while having enough creditability to influence the directors to notice credentials of the next newest cast member for the TV
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Being an aspiration to another African American woman to achieve their goals by watching this television show relates to work ethics, independence and position in power. Being an African American, the show displays personalities of each character, even including the drama scenes. The action in force is having a womanly community and unity, networking, and empowerment while forming a sisterhood as a family outside of their immediate family for moral support. Individuals may relate through connecting with everyday life events as a form of communication. Being inspired, intrigued by the lifestyle and glam most importantly hard work rewards by achieving success through hard work and effort or even from social
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White America was already painting the picture of what life for women: housewives. Terrell encourages African American women that they can be just a great of mother as the woman of the “dominant race” and more if they teach their children values and morals. She states, “If the women of the dominant race with all the centuries of education. refinement, and culture back of them, with all their wealth of opportunity ever present with them, if these women felt a responsibility to call a Mother's Congress that they might be ever enlightened as to the best methods of rearing children and conducting their homes, how much more do the women of our race from whom the shackles of slavery have just fallen need information on the same subjects? Let us have Mother Congresses in every community in which our women can be counseled.
She composed a novel that urged women across the country to search for opportunities and discover their individual beliefs as endure everyday life. Throughout the novel, Friedan entwines work and identity by utilizing the methods of
Furthermore, Tina is African American and survived life on the streets during a time in which being African American put you at an increased risk. Living in an environment and occupying, not one, but two minority statuses is why Tina impacted me the most. I can relate to Tina because I am an African American female in the environment of higher education and in the professional arena where being African American and being female makes surviving and being successful a little more challenging. Another aspect of Tina that resonated with me was her tendency to display overcompensating behaviors, such as
African American women make up eight percent of the United States population, the women in this minority group deal with negative and positive stereotypes on a daily basis. These stereotypes are apparent within mainstream media. With today’s children having more access to media. now more than ever, they are subjected to these stereotypes at a young age (Adams-Bass, Bentley-Edwards, & Stevenson, 2014, n.p.). When blacks have more Afrocentric features like thick lips, bigger noses, or a darker skin tone, they are more likely to have a negative stereotype towards them (Conrad, Dixon, & Zhang, 2009, n.p.).
In a 2010 study that measured gender role belief in nearly 400 African American women, it was noted that the traditional gender role that is ascribed to white American women may not be relevant for African American women (Nguyen, et al., 2010). The cultural experience of African Americans in the United States from slavery to the civil rights era has an impact on their gender role views. The economic, political and social history of African Americans in the United States contribute to gender roles that are not clearly defined between male and female as African Americans men and women were made to perform in both gender roles at times.
This theme is developed through the mother yet deciding to stand out and do life her own way. As a woman, the mother in this story is expected to act like everyone else. Women in
In doing so, these working women began to have the ability to support themselves, and, therefore, tended to rely less on men. However, these women not only defied the workplace’s principles, but also condemned society’s gender
The movie “Real Women Have Curves” tells the story of Ana Garcia, a high school graduate on her way to pursuit the American dream. Ana lives in barrio in Eastern Los Angeles, she is a brilliant student whom teacher really admire. Although she wants to go to college, her family, especially her mother, Carmen, tells her not to. In her mother’s eyes, Ana is a spoiled child who only thinks of herself. As the movie rolls along, the conflict between Ana and Carmen grows larger and Carmen turns into Ana’s biggest obstacle in achieving her American dream.
The poem Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway written by Lorna Dee Cervantes, and the movie Hidden Figures originally a book written by Margot Lee Shetterly both convey the theme of empowerment to hard-working, strong women who can be just as smart and diligent as a man without the actual help of one. Both Dee Cervantes’ poem and Shetterly’s movie/book voice the importance of being strong willed as a women and making a life for yourself regardless your situation. Two concepts I found in these pieces of literature that I would like to obtain personally is the topic: focus on what you can control, not what you can’t, and cultivate a strong support group to achieve your success. Focus on what you can control, not what you can’t. In the movie Hidden
The portrayal and role depicted in the literature helped women in the long run to gain acceptance and equality in society. The literary contributions made and for women continue to be a springboard for women to gain equality to men. Finally, the accomplishment of these women writers who struggled to publish their fragile poems and stories could spread a template for other women around the word on how they can actually voice out their thoughts and help improve their own rights. Thus, women will continue to gain equality and recognition, and this success will also continuously impact the
In this week's journal I will be discussing; The Opening of the Black Panther movie and how the movie is more women ordination and the overall power that women held in these positions, and what ways black women excellence is shown in the movie. The main character may be the king T'challa who is the king of wakanda, but the women were the true focus on the film, and are extraordinary. These women are extraordinary based around the fact that. None of these women have superpowers during the movie and don't let this fact deter them from the task that they take on.
The movie clearly exposes the many ways that the human dignity of African- American maids was ignored. They had suffered daily embarrassment but were able to claim their own way dignity. The film described about empowerment of individuals as well as about social justice for a group. It is a moving story depicting dehumanization in a racist culture but also the ability to move beyond the unjust structures of society and to declare the value of every human being.
A constant comparison and contrast between Maggie and Dee is prominent structural feature of the narrative. This structural strategy helps in conceptualizing the plurality of female experience within the same milieu. This strategy encapsulates another dimension of womanism, viz. , womanism refuses to treat black woman as a homogeneous monolith. Unlike feminist position, womanism is sensitive to change with time.
This novel is also autobiographical. Throughout history, women have been locked in a struggle to free themselves from the borderline that separates and differentiate themselves from men. In many circles, it is agreed that the battleground for this struggle and fight exists in literature. In a