Lyncherdom Stereotypes

Jim Crow was a system in the southern and bordered states that made lives for blacks and other races from white difficult from 1877 to the 1960s. Blacks were to be treated as inferiors to the whites. “ Newspaper and magazine writers routinely referred to blacks as niggers, coons, and darkies; and worse, their articles reinforced anti-black stereotypes” (Pilgrim 2000). Overall, it was oppression on blacks. Blacks did not receive their full rights as citizens. Blacks faced so many other racial problems from whites as if they had done something wrong in the world. Two examples of how blacks lived with Jim Crow are Walter Cavers from North Carolina and Dora Dennis from Arkansas. In interviews they described issues they had to face where they were

Racial stereotypes have always been a serious issue in society. The stereotypes impact many aspects of our life. We more or less get carried away by our perceptions toward race, and judge people in a certain frame unconsciously, as Omi set forth in In Living Color: Race and American Culture. Taken by Hilary Swift, this photo presents an African American woman, waiting for a bus that can take her to the Kitchen of Love, a food pantry that located in Philadelphia aiming to feed people suffering from hunger, where she volunteers. It happens in dawn so it’s still dark outside. The surroundings give us an idea that it should take place in a black neighborhood (Stolberg “Black Voters, Aghast at Trump, Find a Place of Food and Comfort”). The woman is staring at the direction where the bus is coming, with a smile on her face. As a photojournalistic image, this photo is aiming to portrait a kind and helpful African American woman, however, does this photo really “positively” portrait an African American woman?

2. One of the texts most focused on educating readers about race and the challenges it presents to American culture is Ida B. Wells’ “Lynch Law in All its Phases.” As discussed in previous reading responses, Wells’ speech is made up primarily of evidence due to the limitations placed on women of colors’ speech but even more so due to her “deep-seated conviction that the country at large does not know the extent to which lynch law prevails in parts of the Republic” (189). In this way, Wells endeavours to educate the US both about lynching and about the repercussions of allowing lynch law to prevail. That is, Wells forces audiences to acknowledge the fact that lynching, and thus white supremacy and racism, actively threaten the moral pillars that the United States is built on.

Have you ever told one of your friends something, and you just felt the need to throw in

In the case of lynching, discourses emerge from heated debates about the meaning of the practice; these debates change over the long history of lynching in America. At different times in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the term “lynching” has implied rather different historical acts amongst the community. It has also been used to specify acts that indicated a wide range of distinct motives, strategies, technologies and meanings, as well as a politically encumbered term. For many African Americans who grew up in the South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the threat of lynching was mundane. Photographs and postcards illustrating the popular image of an angry white mob hanging a black man does not give the full historic

Systematic racism continues to perpetuate the marginalization of people of color in the 21st century despite belief of living in a post racial society. This unfortunate reality is seen in many different forms of current culture. One of the ways systematic racism takes current form, is in the negative portrayal created by a single narrative, or the lack thereof, minority groups. This lack of representation or diversity of people of color in different forms of art and platforms, not only affects those subject to misrepresentation, but perpetuates negative attitudes and discriminatory behavior towards those subject to misrepresentation. It is necessary to look into the ways this single narrative in different art forms affects marginalized group, and the current move to dismantle the component power plays in who gets to tell these stories.

Racism and discrimination continue to be a prevalent problem in American society. Although minorities have made significant strides toward autonomy and equality, the images in media, specifically television, continue to misrepresent and manipulate the public opinion of blacks. It is no longer a blatant practice upheld by the law and celebrated with hangings and beatings, but instead it is a subtle practice that is perceived in the entertainment and media industries. Whether it’s appearing in disparaging roles or being negatively portrayed in newscasts, blacks continue to be the victims of an industry that relies on old ideas to appeal to the majority. The viscous cycle that is the unconscious racism of the media continues to not only be

On December 1, 1955 a black seamstress, after a long and exhausting day at work, got onto a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the back where the blacks were portioned off. A few stops following, a flock of white people boarded. They seized all the remaining seats in the front, except for one white man who was forced to stand as the seats were filled up. The bus driver ordered the four black people in the rear end of the bus to give up their seats to the white man.Three of the four stood up hesitantly. Rosa Parks, the work-weary black seamstress did not. She was arrested later that evening. She was angry at the hate and disrespect towards blacks and minorities. She had enough of the way the world has treated them and she knew that

We live in a society where people judge everyone based on the stereotypes of who they are whether it is gay, southern, or even their nationality. First, just because a guy it gay does not mean they have to act feminine. There are many gay guys in the world that do enjoy sports and hate fashion. Most people think that just because a guy it gay means they have to love doing everything a girl likes to do when in reality it is up to the individual person to decide that not their sexual orientation. Next just because someone lives in the south does not mean they love hunting, go to church, and love sweet tea. Some southerners rather stay away from guns and live in the city away from the country life. Finally, just because someone is from a certain

Since the beginning of 2015, much debate in popular cultural discourse has involved the Academy Award “snubbing” of the hit 2014 drama Selma. Critics lauded the film as a cinematic masterpiece; Rotten Tomatoes, a noted outlet for professional and amateur film criticism honored Selma with an outstanding rating of 98%, one of the highest ratings from last season. Further, legendary film critic Richard Roper of the Chicago Sun Times referred to the film as “an important history lesson that never feels like a lecture.” However, even with overwhelming praise, Selma garnered a merger two Academy Award nominations (one for Best Picture, the other for Best Original Song “Glory”). Pop culture commentators and much of the general public viewed the lack

I do agree with most of my classmates that the English consider Indians and African women as slaves, even though women are categorized in a different category, they have faced the same brutality or even worse in my opinion. In Zinn’s book, he mentioned how women and children were taken as slaves for sex and labor. In Chapter 3, Zinn also mentioned of how servant women were raped.

Although the character of Sofia knows that her resistance will cause trouble, she feels it is more important to stand up for herself, than to bow down to repression of white authority. Had Sofia not fought back, she still would have been punished for cursing the Mayor’s wife. There was no pathway for Sofia to keep her dignity and not offend the Mayor and his wife. In that system, a black person had to remain inferior to whites, and in the South, follow the Jim Crow Laws that enforced segregation. C N Truman describes Jim Crow as “a minstrel show character from the 1830’s. He was portrayed as an elderly, crippled and clumsy African American slave and his portrayal showed all the negative stereotypes of African Americans – the black man with his white master with Jim Crow being thankful for his lot in life.” Sofia goes against these stereotypes as she is a strong-willed woman who throughout the text knows she is entitled to more. The only idea that Sofia follows, is that she unwillingly has a white master, but is never thankful for this.

Often when ‘Blacks’ are portrayed in films they are typically assigned supporting roles. Hollywood black actors are often typecast as criminal and violent. Specific devices are also used in media representations of ethnic minorities to perceive ‘them’ as a threat. In fact, Jaspal and Cinnirella (2010) claims that there is a pervasive tendency to portray Muslims as threatening. One of the principle rhetorical strategies used by popular media to reinforce this dichotomy between cultures is achieved through delineating the in group from the out group. Jaspal and Cinnirella (2010) explained how the widespread of the noun phrase ‘the Muslim world’ acts to create a homogenous social entity which is in opposition to the west. The second process used to act to segregate or marginalised muslims through the act of rejection, which is a device focusing on portraying on negative social representations. Michael Welch (2016) suggest that immigrants pose a threat to America’s Eurocentric culture. He argues that the media is responsible for fuelling anti-immigrant hostility through the process of criminalising immigrants by portraying them as predatory

Many communication theorists have studied stereotyping in the different facets of the mass media concerning minority groups. Theorist Zillman's study on stereotyping examines

Darkness has been appropriated by various cultures of people for too long, as some feel the need to tan to get darker, not realizing what exactly darker skin people are going through and why they are looked down upon because of something that they can not control. Appropriation is not them appreciating dark skin. It's a mockery because suggesting that those groups of people can be dark as well but they can be accepted for it is ridiculous.