Blackgirl, Whitegirl Or Halfie : Short Story

“How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)” and “Girl” are both an extreme representation of what life was and sometimes still is for many women. They’re both based on a standardized conception of how women should act towards society. Even though these two stories have similar messages, the points of view from where each story is told are different. “How to date a brown girl” is narrated by a teenager who believes is experienced with girls from all types of ethnicities. “Girl” seems to be a story of a mother trying to help her daughter by telling her how she’s supposed to behave. Besides the confident, self-assured tones in both narrators, the expectations that society places on women are the true similarities shared between these two

Barrientos starts with sharing her embarrassment to sign up for Spanish classes—the language used by her parents to communicate. Society’s expectation on her fluency of Spanish based on her Latina appearance causes self-questioning: where do I fit in? However, Barrientos initially refused to face her ethnicity as a Latina, beginning at a young age. The poor reputation on Spanish Americans causes Barrientos to isolate herself from the stereotype, by speaking English instead of Spanish. However, society changed: different

It is not just the language of the Dominican culture that we find characters struggling to hold onto in Díaz’s Drown. We also find that the characters walk a fine line of defining themselves as newly Dominican American, and it seems they feel pressured to leave behind their old ways and traditions to join their new society. In the short story “Fiesta, 1980,” we find many examples of the family being torn between their Dominican customs and assimilating to their new American life. This story begins with the explanation of Papi’s most prized possession: a brand-new, lime-green, Volkswagen van. Much to Yunior’s chagrin (due to the fact that he gets sick every time he rides in the vehicle), this van means a lot to Papi, because to him, it represents an American family. According to John Riofrio (2008), “it[the van] is the embracing of the American way which has reenabled Papi’s masculinity,” (p. 33). After arriving at their Tia and Tio’s home for the party, Yunior sneers at his relatives’ apartment stating, “the place had been furnished in Contemporary Dominican Tacky” (p. 32). It seems as though Yunior, after only a short period in America, is already feeling embarrassed by his culture’s traditions. This chapter of the book also discusses the betrayal of Yunior’s father to his family, by having an affair with a Puerto Rican woman, whom

He even suggested, “Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa” suggesting that it is best to appear as a white person rather than who he really is (Diaz, 2). This reveals that he has most likely experienced the effect of stereotypes and is now trying to counteract that effect. The narrator stereotypes how his dates will respond based on their race, trying to predict various details of what the date will include based on the fact of their skin color. In addition to racial stereotyping, he also demonstrates gender stereotyping. On various occasions, he refers to his desire to have sexual interactions with the girls and sexualizing female’s body, potentially demonstrating that that is his primary drive to connect with her. Him and his friends also refer to females using derogatory terms such as the label

Stereotypes are dangerous weapons in our society. “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” is a short essay in which the award winning poet and professor of English, Judith Ortiz Cofer, wishes to inform and persuade the audience that labels and stereotypes can be humiliating and hurtful. The author targets the general public, anyone that doesn’t understand that putting someone in a box because of a stereotype is wrong. Cofer starts out the essay by telling the reader a story with a drunk man who re-enacted “Maria” from the West Side Story, and how angry that made her feel. She continues by explaining how she grew up in the United States being a Puerto Rican girl trying to fit in, but always being labeled as an island girl. Cofer carries on by explaining why Latin people get dressed and act a certain way. Then she recalls some more stereotypical incidents.

The short story “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz is the main character, Yunior’s, guide to dating girls of different races and the ways to act in order to get what you want from them. The only thing Yunior seems to want for these girls is sexual acts. This short story argues that a person’s heritage, economic class, and race affect how a person identifies themselves, and how their identity affects how they act towards other people. The pressures a person may feel from society also has an effect on how a person treats themselves and others. The pressure and expectations from society are also what makes Yunior think he needs to have sex with these girls. There are many different occasions of the main

In the short story “How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” Junot Diaz

He starts of the story with the setting of his house and how he is preparing for his first date to arrive. He is doing extraordinary preparations to impress the girl he is currently dating. As he is explaining how to prepare for the date he gives simple suggestions such as “If she’s an outsider her father will be bringing her, maybe her mother” (page 178). This is stating that the girl will not be urban or Hispanic since she is considered an outsider. He is also giving a hint that he has to act differently because the young lady is from a different cultural background. Diaz also gives the acquisition in his quote “If she’s a whitegirl you know you’ll at least get a hand job” (page 178). Which implies that every white girl gives hand job which is a simple stereotype that Diaz might have heard from his friends or believing this from an experience he has

In How to date the narrator is waiting for a girl to come over to his house. While he was waiting he said, “(...) usually the out-of-towners are black, black girls who grew up with ballet and girl scouts, who have three cars in their driveways” (Diaz 2). This quote is talking about how the narrator thinks a woman's life is based on her color. In the quote the narrator said that, “usually the out-of-towners are black.’ This is stereotypical because, he is just assuming that she will be from out of town because she is black. He also assumed that she grew up with ballet and girl scouts. Everything that the boy said are stereotypical towards females of a darker color. This quote is showing how minorities stereotype other minorities and how the narrator judged the girl based on stereotypes that he learned at school or in the street. Just like the mexican stereotypes they were both given to them based on what people see from the outside not by how someone is on the inside. People using the stereotypes to assume how someone is is not good because they never learn how the person is on the inside. They just assume

Most people think that the struggle for race equality finished with Obama, but in reality, society has just reached the tip of the iceberg. In the article “Afro Latinos: Black denial”, the author argues that Dominican women are in denial about their blackness because being white is considered superior and black is inferior. This connects to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, when the author argues that the history of the Dominican Republic affects the way people think and express themselves. Namely, Beli and Lola in their young adulthood when they struggle to fit in. These characters relate the issues to the real world, where the standards of success are for the most part are the same as the white standards of success. Race Hegemony exists

Ruby was playing baseball outside with all the african american kids and grown ups. Then she went to the grocery store with her daddy and got some ideas they needed for dinner. Ruby has three other siblings, 2 boys and 1 girl. Ruby family and her family attended church that Sunday and played the piano with some old lady that she knew. The next day Ruby got invited to go to a new school because of how smart she was but the problem was it was originally an all white school not for color children. Ruby’s first day she had to be escorted by some U.S. marshals for protection and her safety this happened everyday that she had to that school. Ruby got a new teacher for the north and she was the only african american little girl who was in her class in fact she was the only student in her class.

Diaz progresses into detailing the necessary steps the young man must follow to get an actual date with a woman dependent upon her race and background. The young man is led to believe that for each type of girl he must present himself differently to not offend her or her parent’s fragile sensibilities and receives instructions on how to properly illicit a date “The directions were in your best handwriting, so her parents won't think you're an idiot” (256). Clearly, careful psychological manipulations of a girl’s parents are a vital component in achieving dating success. To this point, the young man has only received instruction and it is here that the reader receives some insight into which type of woman the young man is wanting to date “The white ones are the ones you want the most, aren't

Fall is in the air and being a stereotypical white girl, I make my way over to the nearest Starbucks to order a Pumpkin Spice Latte with a mountain of whipped cream. After waiting in a line which seems like has taken forever, I finally reach the Barista to place my order. I ask for extra sugar in my Latte and then I hear behind me, "Hold off on the sugar, you're sweet enough". Seriously? A coffee related pun as a pick up line? The pun master makes his way up to me and hands me half of a receipt with his number on it. I look down at the Walmart receipt and glance back up at him to kindly ask, "Do you need a babysitter this weekend?" Bad puns, sending out effortless text messages and also the occasional stalking are all pretty disastrous ways

Film is a series of artistic moving images that make up a story. In every film, the director visually presents the storyline, different characters, the problems they encounter and how they were deal with. There is a wide range of ways to study films of various genres. We focus on film language, genre, mise-en-scene, representation, stereotypes, etc. In Black Girl, it was depicted as an allegory and had a lot of mise-en-scene.

I feel so depressed and melancholy when my daughter Whitey was in a coma because of a car accident in Indiana. I got more depressed as the days passed by. My older daughter has been taken care of her in the hospital, thinking that she was my daughter. I always hope she will be back in motion. It's was unbelievable where I came to know that my daughter Whitey was killed in an accident and buried by my friend's family by mistake. As days passed by, I felts so emotionally and mentally sad.