Social Media And Its Impact On Society

Black women are always the leading role and image of negative identity. With the many amounts of stereotypes and verbal imagery, people will remain persuaded across the United States to believe such biased standards. They are persuaded to view Black women as characters in storytelling about incapable gender, race, and social class. Being slandered by the same oppressors who statistically rates them highest amongst all other races of women, also strips them morals, worth, and labels Black women destined for drug-abuse and incarceration.

When a black woman lowers her life standard, she invites outsiders to pose judgement on the entire group. These unethical behaviors of black women is capitalized off of by mainstream media. Shows such as VH1’s Love and Hip Hop keeps the negative stereotypes of a black woman alive. The black woman who rises above all adversity gains value and respect amongst the

When you look at the amount of African American stars on television, it is easy to tell that stereotypes of African Americans are being portrayed negatively. Since the 1960s, black television has thrived in many different ways. From “Different Matters” to “Insecure”, African Americans have tried to get rid of this stigma. African Americans are constantly shown as. However, with the increase of representation comes an increase in misrepresentation. The amount of discrimination has risen exponentially in the United States. This is due to the increased hatred and miscommunication of black struggle and black problems in the world, causing an inhumane belief and standard of regular African Americans in the world.

From the beginning of cinema, the media has shown black women as nothing more than objects, dehumanizing them all together. This representation has held a long-lasting impact on both young and old African American women everywhere. The theme of my paper is about the media and how it has a negative impact on black women. The topics that I will be covering includes the following: need to prove the media wrong and working two times as hard as everyone else; social Media, TV and Movies and the roles they play; self-hatred and anger due to the comparisons to other ethnicities and that we are low-class, unattractive, uncivilized, uneducated and have no opportunities to make something of themselves; embracing what Black/ African Studies teaches; influential people and positive acknowledgments; how black women are affected and discouraged due to lack of self-love and knowledge. These impacts can come from another ethnicity and even from the black women themselves because of their lack of knowledge of where they come from, their history and overall grandness. Knowing these facts alone and embracing all that Black Studies teaches can reverse the damage that has been done to black women everywhere from ages one to one hundred. They begin to believe what they see or what they see on about themselves when it is drilled into their heads that all of what is seen in the media is true. Due to lack of knowledge of

“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”- Malcolm X. Black women have been stripped of their humanity for so long in popular culture that society can’t even see the truth that lies in front of them. Black women can’t express their anger, or they’re just another angry black woman stereotype. Yes, black women are angry, they are fed up with white women flaunting around their culture like it's a fashion trend, black women are tired of having to work twice as hard just to gain respect in the workplace, and most importantly they are tired of being hypersexualized. Through music videos, black women are hyper-sexualized, which maintains the sexual glorification of a black female body, while also strengthening the abhorrent stereotype of the Jezebel, which is linked back to times of slavery. The Jezebel stereotype was the slavers justification for raping and assaulting black women. Black women were depicted as sexually promiscuous and “whores” by nature. This image generated the belief that black women couldn’t be victims of rape because they lust for sexual relations. The hypersexualization of black women is a danger to black women and girls. Black women can still be seen in a Jezebel like an image in hip-hop/pop music videos. Their hardly accoutred bodies are often adorned on expensive cars or caressed by male rappers.

Many black women are stereotyped as being loud, unruly, lazy, disrespectful, etc. When I think of black women I often think of how media portrays us in movies or reality shows as self-hating, angry, miserable, and vindictive. Although some of these stereotypes have some measure of truth, it doesn’t take away the fact that no other group of women have been devalued, misunderstood, or criticized as black women. Many black women have made great achievements under some of the harshest circumstances along with unequal opportunities. The truth is many black women are devoted wives, mothers, physicians, educators, lawyers, politicians, authors, and humanitarians.

One of the main reasons the media industries need to become more diversified is positive representation. Growing up watching shows and films, I don’t feel like I had adequate representation and positive role models to look up to. Even now, when I look at the images of Black women in media, I don’t find many of them to be positive – however, the positivity is growing thanks to the presence of people like Shonda Rhimes and Ava DuVernay. The problem with the lack of diversity in the media industries, particularly behind the scenes, is the fact that when it comes to creating content that targets and includes marginalized groups, a lot of it is derived from stereotyped stigmas that the White majority perpetuates via their predominate role. This

The media is popular for over generalizing people of particular race or background. Usually, it tends to inaccurately present people of specific race or social background. For instance, an average black women representation in the media today is that they are angry, loud or bold. They are promiscuous, an alien creature with curvy features and with big personality. Thus, they are portrayed as just an exotic sexual figure for non-colored men to try. In other words, interest in a black woman only go as far as a romantic or sexual experiment for white men. While there are growing interracial serious relationship between black women and men of different races, prejudiced black women face from stereotypes is more extensive.

When I was younger, I thought black was all but synonymous with “bad" because that is the how African Americans were primarily portrayed in the media. Black and other people of color tended to be the bad guys, no good thugs and criminals, or the dumb student in the back of the class who could barely read. This is slowly getting better as time goes on with the popularity of Shondaland produced series like Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy or Lee Daniel’s Empire, whose success has pressured other producers to have diverse casts. Still, even if there are people of color on camera, if the writers’ room is not diverse it is hard for the portrayal of people of color to be accurate. However because of technology, there are other places I can go to watch and hear opinions of people that look like me. Especially due to growing tension surrounding “the -isms” in America, my eyes have been opened through keeping up with issues discussed in the news, on social media, and on alternate forms of media such as podcasts and video blogs. The more I learned, the more passionate I grew about a wide spectrum of social issues. This is what ultimately fueled my decision to pursue a degree in journalism because I want to be involved in the spread of relevant information that can help frame conversations in the future. I am hopeful that the more educated people become, the less small girls of

The media plays a huge role in the identity of black women. The portrayal of black women are a representation of how people see them, treat them and how they look at themselves. From how they wear their hair, how they look, how they dress, their assets, skin color and ethnicity, they are being picked a part from things that serve no importance of how a black

After listening to Kendrick Lamars “To pimp a butterfly” album I have concluded that there are fundamental issues with the way the black race is represented in modern day media. This leads to black men and women feeling that they are not worthy of being members of society, this album’s intent is to reach out the black race and empower them with a feeling of self worth and pride in their race, it also stands to inform people who are not of the black race of the struggle that they go through both physically by the environment that many of the black race have no choice but to live in, and the emotional issues of depression and other issues that people suffer, as a result of being treated as inferior by the large of the population and feeling as

Before understanding the toil African American women faced from the numerous depictions of the media, what exactly defines a black woman? Is it her hair, assets, or character? Women of all races were for centuries considered the lesser of the man, the caregiver supplying anything for their husband as they requested, even once without the right to vote. In history, black women have taken even more criticism for being both black and a female. This is shown in slavery, and segregation. Black female leaders fought for the due respect that women needed, making it seem as if the women of today have no care for their work that is incomparable to that of their ancestors. Confidence, self-esteem, and beauty are the biggest aspects women treasure most but some go to the extreme of exposing their bodies for such attention, similar to what is seen in the media. While the degradation of the media promotes these statements through popular music, television, and the influence on the younger generation, the overall self-worth of black women aspiring for success is spiraling downward.

In today’s media, bodies of color, particularly black female bodies, are underrepresented and poorly represented by stereotypical images that are constructed by patriarchy and white supremacy. When stereotypes are distinctly visible and exposed in the media, they tend to be easily adopted by individuals, even though they are untrue. These stereotypes are quite problematic because they stand in for actual knowledge and real life experience. White supremacy is used as framework to contextualize Western ways of thinking of how we understand the knowledge presented about bodies of color. Mass media is a system of knowledge and power reproducing that attempts to maintain white supremacy by oppressing people of color, particularly women of color. In this paper, l will explore how hegemonic tropes of knowledge have been presented historically and how they are reinforced through representations in the media.

Television shows and music portray negative images of just about every nationality, but the one that hits home for me are the negative images of Black women, because I am a black woman. Woman is the creator of earth and we should in all situations, images, and relationships be respected as such. We as women need to wake up, join together and demand the respect we were created to receive as well as give. As it stands, we are a country with loose morals and low standards. Matthew Henry said, “There is none so deaf as those that will not hear; and none so blind as those that will not see.” This my fellow classmates describes Americas present

Unique Challenges in Diversity. It would be naive to state that the United States is in a perfect state to foster healthy opportunities for all unique specialty groups. Hashtag movements such as #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, #YouOkaySis, and #BlackOutDay represent just a small portion of modern discrimination and stereotyping that exists today. Although, it does not mean the progress the Civil Rights Movement, the Suffragettes should be forgotten with the goal of a diverse narrative of America being unattainable. Honest work needs to be put in from multiple communities. Currently, African-American women are using social media as a tool to bring awareness not only as African-Americans or as women, but both.