Summary: Extraordinary Outsiders

Lorraine O’Grady uses her essay “Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity” to address the issue of how the black female body is portrayed within art. She discusses the racist portrayal of the black female body compared to the white female body in art, explaining how the black body is only their to accentuate the white one, in the contrast of colors and subject matter. The black female is presented in art often as a slave only their to serve the white female. Lorraine O’Grady explains how the black female body is given no individuality and is objectified. She describes how the black female is presented in the back or shadows of art as a supporting role to the main focus of the white female. Lorraine O’Grady uses this essay in order to reclaim how the

The storm continued to vent its temperamental rage on the earth and its people. What an outsider would consider 'nice weather' was completely unheard of. This was the regular routine of the weather, and no one seemed to mind it.

Throughout Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye, she captures, with vivid insight, the plight of a young African American girl and what she would be subjected to in a media contrived society that places its ideal of beauty on the e quintessential blue-eyed, blonde woman. The idea of what is beautiful has been stereotyped in the mass media since the beginning and creates a mental and emotional damage to self and soul. This oppression to the soul creates a socio-economic displacement causing a cycle of dysfunction and abuses. Morrison takes us through the agonizing story of just such a young girl, Pecola Breedlove, and her aching desire to have what is considered beautiful - blue eyes. Racial stereotypes of beauty contrived and nourished by

In this essay there will be a couple characters from the book I will not mention all of them in this essay. The two groups are the soc and the greasers. The greasers are Ponyboy Curtis, Darrel Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Two-bit Mathews, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade. Sodapop has a girlfriend named sandy but she is not mentioned very much. The soc are Randy Anderson, Bob Sheldon, Paul Holden, and Jerry Wood. Bob and Randy both have a girlfriend Cherry Valance is a soc cheerleader and bob's girl friend there's also Marcia, Randy's girlfriend and cherry’s friend.

In the outsider chapter 7 Darry Sodapop and Ponyboy were waiting in the waiting room in the hospital, then the reporters and police came in and started asking Ponyboy and Sodapop how Johnny and Dally were doing. Ponyboy got confused, so Darry told them to slow down. Then one reporter asked Ponyboy If you could do one thing right now what would it be? And Ponyboy said he would take a bath.

In an effort to change this objectification, O’Grady suggests that female artists must begin to reconstruct the subjectivity of black female subjects in art. They should reclaim the black female body as something to embrace and admire rather than just glance over. It is a slow and steady process but a necessary one. Furthermore, she strongly argues that the artist must do so even if her audience is uncomfortable with it because it is the best method to deconstruct a pre-existing idea of the black female subject.

In Lucille Clifton’s poem “Homage to my Hips,” the female speaker explores, praises, and celebrates her own sexuality despite living in a confined society where people thought that having dark skin was not beautiful. Literary critic K. Anthony Appiah notes in his essay titled Race that, “we cannot deny that having one set of heritable characteristics—dark skin…can have profound psychological and social consequences…in societies…”(285) Despite the society in which the speaker of the poem lives, she to some degree turns the tables on the statement that Appiah makes in one of his essays. Clifton masters this through form, meter and precise word choice and the speaker is able to feel comfortable with her body and blackness in a society that rejects these “heritable characteristics.”

These images and personas give the effect of a “good/bad girl” spectrum between white and black women so that white women can further distinguish themselves from Black women as if to say that being a hypersexual, degraded, and objectified woman is the standard of beauty for Black women, whereas, white women have a more sensible approach to beauty (Hunter, Soto 2009). According to Beverly Tatum, who describes in her book, “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” whites have the privilege to not look at themselves via grouping but instead as individuals; whereas, Blacks and other people of color are taught at an early age to identify themselves with others of their race (Tatum 1997: 21). Because of racial grouping we tend to follow the examples of other Black women before us especially during adolescence when girls and boys start to ask the

My artifact does not truly reveal my perspective of who I am as a student or a learner. My artifact reveals that of who I have become as a woman, wife and mother. Thou as I have stated in my artifact paper, “I am always willing to learn and it never ends, just like the shape of the ring, never ending.” I believe every day we are students and learners, there is that old saying “you learn something new every day” and I believe

It is May, 1970. Sweat drips from foreheads like raindrops, and everyone is trying to endure the inescapable heat. Young girls jump rope outside, while smaller children race to the tune of the ice cream truck echoing their eardrums. My grandmother, who is 19, sits perched on her sofa, listening to Aretha Franklin on her father's brand new record player. While she drifts away with Aretha's voice, she indulges herself with a new fashion magazine she bought earlier that day. It is called Essence. The woman on the cover is black and beautiful. Her eyelashes are a mile long, and her glossy lips are full and perfect. She is every man's dream, and what every woman wishes to be. During a time of racial discrimination, black people, especially black women, were stamped into the shadows. Essence gave black women a voice, in a time when they were silenced in the fashion industry. Forty-six years later, the magazine continues to cover different aspects of the lives of black women. Essence effectively appeals to its audience by utilizing vibrant written and visual content, which empowers their audience, and also covers several aspects of life

Both, Brown and Pilar Brown, help to bring the Black woman narrative forward in these recent exhibitions. When I see their work I see myself. I follow the clues of their contemporary aesthetics to read the narrative of objects,understanding that the littlest things have the biggest significance. That those old pictures and junk found in granny’s house are actually

That Was Then This Is Now By S.E. Hinton. I would give this book a 5 out of 5. The reason that I give this book a 5 out of 5 is that S.E. Hinton also wrote the Outsiders which was also a great book. I can kind of relate to this story as well. These boys go through a lot in this book I think it is a great book to read.

An outsider should know the basic fundamental beliefs of an religion and it’s rules or regulations. A good example an outsider should know about the religion they are studying is whether or not that belief is a monotheistic or polytheistic religion. That particular detail is extremely important because for most monotheistic religions any recognition of another deity is forbidden. While polytheistic religions usually have multiple gods who each have different personalities or powers. This might be an obvious detail for most people but the significance ties into an outsider recognizing the many laws a religion might have. Besides, worshipping false idols, some religions restrict their followers from eating certain foods like pork or any meat

It provides a doorway into how prior civilizations lived and functioned as a society. Art forms such as paintings on cave walls, decorated pots, and the symbolism of body decorations, all express the thoughts and ideas of a culture. Ember maintains, “The anthropological study of art places particular emphasis on the cultural context in which art is produced.” (Ember, 2015, p.355) What does a culture’s art symbolize and what tools were utilized to produce it? In addition, how art varies between different cultures and each cultures interpretation of various art forms from a perspective of unique beauty and

On BBC documentary called Seven Ages of Britain, which was hosted by David Dimbleby, one of the most famous contemporary artists, Damien Hirst, was once asked that did he pay for all the diamonds to make For the Love of God (2007, figure 1), which is so called as the diamond skull because it is made of a plenty of diamonds. Hirst answered that artists used what around him or her, and money was around him. Therefore, he thought that what he could do with money, and he could do something amazing with them. Consequently, he created For the Love God. What should be spotlighted is the point that an artist creates his or her works with materials, which are around them.