Rachel Eaves's Stereotypes

The Hate U Give is a book by Angie Thomas. The theme of the hate u give is some people get treated and looked at differently because of their skin color. Examples of this happening is when khalil was in the car with starr officer 115 came up to khalil and started questioning him and started assuming he's a drug dealer so then he makes khalil step out and then officer 115 shoots khalil 3 times. Starr goes to a white prep school there she has to talk proper and watch how she acts or she be seen as a stereotype the “loud angry ghetto black girl” she is being stereotyped based of her color and race which ties in to my thesis.

Groves High School has a set of rules that set a certain standard for its students. In the book Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl Story by Pegi Deitz Shea and If you come softly by Jacqueline Woodson both sets of characters go through similar situations. In Tangled Threads, main character, Mai Yang is deported to the U.S from a refugee camp in Thailand, after the devastating war in her hometown Laoz. Once she finally gets to America after a agonizing 10 years she learns to deal with the newly found American customs but still keep in touch with her Hmong roots. In If you come softly, main characters Elie and Miah, juggle the obstacles and society’s opinion on being an interracial couple in the 1990’s.

Tessa an upcoming freshman at Pilchuck High School spends most of her summer playing football with her boyfriend and his friends. Moreover, she went for runs with her best friends Lexie and Marina. Throughout the summer many things had happened to Tessa; she had gotten a boyfriend, she started playing football, and had a strife with her mother. But most of all she had been able to play in football camp. The decisions that she had to make had conflicted with her friends and family members.

“People are much deeper than stereotypes. That is the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'” A quote by Carson Kressley which perfectly explains the relationship between our two main characters Dana and Rufus in Octavia Butler’s Kindred. In Octavia Butler’s Kindred people’s relationships are more complicated than stereotypes suggest them to be.

Stereotypes are seen all throughout history in films and television. With all of the character tropes that began to make an appearance in films, most characters were thrown into a certain box with a checklist of criterias that they had to fit. Character tropes are especially seen in movies with a high school setting due to the overwhelming pressure of fitting in and the cliques that seem to ring true in real life. In most high school movies there is almost always a teacher's pet, jock, stoner, geek, and most importantly a mean girl. A mean girl trope is very common in high school movies and they are usually one of the most relevant characters to the plot of the movie.

The Stereotypical “Nerd” All throughout history the media has been putting labels on people; these labels are called Stereotypes. At one time or another, mostly everyone has been a promoter or a victim of stereotyping. Teens tend to label people such as “the blonde”. Blonde headed people are seen as dumb and fake because of stereotypes, but just because someone is blonde do not mean they are dumb. In the movie Mean Girls, the media portrays these teenagers as typical stereotypes.

Liz Prince explains her life story when she is from the age of four to her teenage years and to early adulthood. Liz Prince is not a girly girl as she grows up. She resists following or confirming most of the stereotypes that society has put on girls. Even at the young age, she knows that she is not described as a girly girl, but identifies herself as a tomboy. She prefers to not wear dresses and play with toys that are meant for boys.

Later when Janie marries Jody Starks, we see another example of a member of the “in-group” enforcing the negative stereotypes the dominant culture has imposed upon them. Jody remembers the “other men figuratively wallowing in” Janie’s hair (55). He has her cover it up because “she was there in the store for him to look at, not those others” (55). Janie’s hair is a symbol of her sexuality and womanhood. Janie remarks that when Jody forced her to start wearing the scarf, their sexual relationship suffered.

Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2009:342) argue in the Du Bois Review that “racism is much broader than violence and epithets” and reveals itself in common, everyday microaggressions. In May 2010, a string of assaults on elderly citizens of Asian descent by black individuals transpired in the San Francisco Bay area (Shih 2010). CBS San Francisco ran a segment covering the attacks featuring an interview with a 21-year-old black man named Amanze Emenike, who had a criminal history of juvenile robbery and theft (CBS 2012). CBS uses Emenike’s history as a basis for theorizing the motives driving the black attackers in the May 2010 attacks. This news segment sheds light on troubling portrayals of black men and people of color in mass media as all being dangerous criminals, as well as the stereotypes fueling racism amongst minority groups.

Stereotypes are used in everyday life. Celebrities such as Future, Wendy Williams, and Young Thug are the main target for these stereotypes. Future (the rapper) is a stereotypical male celebrity holding the stereotype All Men Are Dogs. Wendy Williams (tv/talk show host) is a stereotypical female celebrity that fits the stereotype All Women Do Is Gossip. Last but not least, Young Thug (rapper) is androgynous and fits the stereotype that all men that dress feminine are gay.

Gwen Stefani stepped out as a cowgirl for George Clooney's Casamigos Tequila Halloween bash in Beverly Hills on Friday evening, October 30. She took to Instagram to show off her flirty costume with the caption, “Hi Halloween.” The 46-year-old singer was not alone on Friday evening, as she had Blake Shelton by her side. " The Voice" coaches stepped out in head-to-toe Halloween ensembles as they attended two parties on that day.

This movie has a look and personality of its own, but lacks a discernable mood. Apathy, maybe, is the tone. As a dark comedy, apathy can work. This is the third Scarlett Johansson movie I 've watched to review since deciding to binge her movies this month after reading in a newspaper it was recently her birthday. Sometimes accidental promotion is the best type of promotion, because then you can feel like you 're choosing to watch a movie free of the influence of hype.

Eve, walked on the cold sidewalk with her beat up sneakers down 5th avenue… she was on her way towards the old cemetery where she goes sometimes to visit. Eve was a different type of girl her age she liked to be alone and liked to do things independently. Eve had just turned 17 and did not have any friends, her only friend was herself and her journal.

In “The Chase” from the memoir An American Childhood, Annie Dillard illustrates an incident from her childhood that stayed with her throughout her life. She describes a time when she was out playing with her friends and got caught up in a chase, in which she had the time of her life. She remembers this incident because it had a lasting impression on her life. The exhilaration of the chase was none like any feeling she’s had before or ever had again. The purpose of this story is for Annie to relive this thrill.

Gendered institutions are an integral part of everyone’s daily life. For myself, playing on a football team shaped me into the individual I have become. The locker room talks before and after practices or football games made me realize how gendered relations and masculinity is influenced by football. As Messner mentions, “gender identity [is] not a ‘thing’ that people ‘have’ but [is] a process of construction that develops, and changes as a person interacts with the social world.” Football has always been perceived as being a male dominated sport due to the aggressive and physical nature of the game.