Black Students Stereotypes

As we grow up we are exposed to stereotypes and we make stereotypes for ourselves good and bad. When students become high schoolers stereotypes are everywhere when they are bad stereotypes they can have an effect on us as stated from (How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can drag Down Performance by Shankar Vedantam in paragraph 7) “When people are threatened by a negative stereotype they think applies to them, they can be subtly biased to live out that stereotype.” When people get told about a negative stereotype from others they tend to believe it and place themselves no higher than that. Which as you can see that stereotype can have a big affect on a person now imagine this with high school students with their whole life ahead of them. With most high school students being

From the article, personally, I gather the idea that some African American students are scared to score better than the white students because they did not want to get bullied or taunted. For most of history, a well educated African American had to hide their knowledge because they were afraid. There are many stories where slaves would sneak their masters books to teach themselves how to read and educate themselves on their own. Based on the interactionist perspective African Americans are automatically have a unequal learning opportunity. They are often perceived as “slow learners.” By placing the students in this category teachers and parents hinder the children’s true potential. There may be many African Americans who are highly

I was a sophomore in high school when I met a black junior at my school named Jordan. She was first in her class and had been taking advanced placement classes since she was a freshman, which my school does not offer freshman. I was in awe when she offered to help me make my schedule for my junior year and advised me on what classes and teachers were the best. Whenever I need advice for school, I still call Jordan to talk about my situation with her. Through this relationship, I have learned that black people need to help other black people because only we know what is feels like to be black and successful. In my experience, success isn’t expected from black students. While applying for a black scholarships the GPA minimum for many of them was 2.5, which is below the 3.0 national average. In essence, they were expecting below average blacks to apply for their

These were some powerful lyrics by Kendrick Lamar in his song The Blacker the berry this verse talks about stereotypes in the black community. Michael Jordan, chicken, BET, these are all associated with the black community. Another thing associated with African Americans is crime. In a study done by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP for short) “African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population.” This had led to the misconception that most black people commit crime. Unfortunately it has been that way since the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. Police brutality has become the outcome of this stereotype. Police have been trained wrong and it has led to terrible

Stereotyping is when something is believed about a group of people that is untrue or only partly true. When someone stereotypes against a group of people they tend to not understand that group or do not want to understand them. Black people, to me, are the most stereotyped race. They are stereotyped as being lazy, loud, they steal, love chicken and watermelon, the women get pregnant and the men are well-endowed. As humans we tend to allow negative stereotyping to determine our thoughts, feelings, and our lives in general. People start to believe things that are not true and teach others that it is acceptable and tolerable to do so. According to April Kemick, from the University of Toronto, it has been proven that stereotyping has a

Everyone, including gifted individuals, face stereotype threats at some point in their lifetime. This threat controls their production and the results in the classroom and in the real world. The expectations become the threat that make individuals, usually minorities, susceptible to a decline in achievement (Schmader, 14-15). Without the intervention of positive influences to encourage and support them, people will begin to feel self-conscious of themselves and perform worse than expected (Schmader, 14). Psychologists performed a study attempting to correct the assumptions and consequences of stereotype threat. After the teachers informed all of the students about the stereotype threat that targeted females, they comforted the students and

The stereotype being displayed in this picture is that Asians spend all of their time studying and as a result are successful in school and life. I first encountered this stereotype in elementary school when a girl came up to me on the playground and asked if I could help her with her math homework because she, “knew I was good at it.” At the time, I was confused because I had no idea how she knew I was good at math. Then, as I became more aware of the stereotype that followed me due to my race, I noticed how it influenced others’ interactions with me.

In the article “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” it stated that “reminding African Americans and Latinos about their race before administering academic tests, or telling them that the tests are measures of innate intelligence, can hurt their performance compared with minorities who were not reminded about race and not told that the results reflect inherent ability.” This was said by a sociologist who has done dozens of experiments which shows that when we remember the stereotypes society has for us, we don’t do as good on certain things such as academics. Besides the fact that we don’t do good we also don’t feel good. In addition, in the survey results everyone for the most part mentioned that when they get stereotyped they feel bad about themselves and don’t feel as motivated to do things. People’s self esteem drops and it affects the way they see each other as part of this society in a negative way. This is something that everyone acknowledges but doesn’t do anything about it so it keeps making people feel bad. It makes all of us feel bad in some way and it affects the way we do in activities when we are reminded of these

When people see a Asian in class, they normaly will considered that kid as a smart student right away, but isn’t that true Asian students are natural smart or they need to work hard to get a good academic ? . This stereotype has affected majority Asian students in positive way and negative way. The stereotype leads to the fact that an Asian student will try to work harder to achieve a better grade. The fact that most of them will try to get in to top schools will help them to get a better job and make more money than other ethic group when they graduated. It was a posstive way to help them achieve a bright future but at this time that stereo type cause pressure on an Asian students. Many of them been bullied by other kid in

During the summer before my junior year I truly felt that I transitioned from a child to the person that I am today. An event happened which became such a huge turning point in my life that I barely even recognized myself after it transpired. It occurred during volleyball camp, when one of my closest friends and I were sitting in the locker room waiting for the day to start. Our conversation started off with simple small talk. Then, completely out of the blue she told me something that felt like a punch in the stomach. She stared straight into my eyes and said “Erin, I know you’re gay.” I couldn’t do anything but stare. So many thoughts were tumbling through my head that my vision became blurry and I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know what to

Have you ever heard of the comment black to want to get their hair wet? Once a point of time in my life I had the same stereotype. I believed that every black woman felt that same way. I initially develop this theory when I was only a young impressionable girl. I use to hear my aunts and mother always complain when we were got either by rain. More so, I use to hear them complain about if I play with water outside I better not come back in the house with my hair wet! Consequently, I made the mistake to ask my mother why and she black women hate for the hair to get wet unless it’s on purpose, and she went into further detail saying that our hair gets course from just randomly playing with water, and we had to work twice as hard to make it manageable

Claude Steele is a social psychologist with a focused interest in self-affirmation theory and its role in self-regulation and the academic under-achievement of minority students and women. Steele explained the academic under achievement of minority students with stereotype threat which is when racial and gender stereotypes can affect minority and womens grades, test scores, and academic identity.(Lasnier, 2009).For many years’ stereotype threat has affected minority students learning making it hard to focus on school because of their environment putting stereotypes in their heads such as already having in your mind that “men are better than women in sciences (Gorlick, 2009) or “I’m black I’m not going to graduate anyway so why even try on

In the 21st century, stereotypes continue to alter high schoolers’ perception of the world, blurring the lines between truths and myths. In this technologically dominant society, most stereotypes are introduced by media depictions. As a result of the plentiful exposure to stereotypes, there are groups of people, in particular women and black people, who experience the effects of stereotype threats—that is, their performance levels worsen when predisposed to stereotypes compared to when they are not. When women and black people are exposed to a stereotype, their perception of their own potential is altered in a negative way, therefore changing their actual performance and self-esteem. In order to combat the consequences of stereotype threats, schools and parents should encourage self-affirmation while deemphasizing inherent qualities because it creates an academic atmosphere where motivation is more heavily valued.

Although one may argue that male students are distracted by female clothing in the classroom, this stereotype is inaccurate. The assumption that is being made when the rules are in place is that if girls are not covered, the learning of male students is at risk since they are not mature enough to control themselves in a learning environment. Ask guys around school and chances are, they do not think that the shoulders of the girl sitting in front of him distract from his learning. If the answer is yes, then they should be taught to not sexualize girls in that manor. Girls are not sexual objects and are not there for the pleasure of a guy. Eliana Dockterman in her article "Schools Are Still Slut-Shaming Girls While Enforcing Dress Code" insinuates

The academic subjects I excel in are history, mathematics, science, and Spanish. It is a typical stereotype that since I am an Asian American, I love equations and numbers. I happen to fall under this phrase because ever since I was a little kid, I loved numbers. To my current day, I have a keen sense of how math and science are used in life just as any other subject. I found out that I am a deductive and inductive reasonable person because I learned it in my Theory of Knowledge class dealing with various subjects. It is interesting how long ago in time philosophers such as Newton or Pythagoras came up with ideas and shapes that are similar to our reality for instance, something a simple as paying for groceries at the daily supermarket or even