The Dehumanization Of The Characters In 'Trust No Bitch'

Orange is the new black is a Netflix original series about the functional ability of a woman's prison in upstate New York. Integrity, power, and privilege all work together to create many of the situations that arise. Litchfield prison is made up of white male officers, and different racial groups that are clearly divided. For each race, loosely made up of: blacks, latinos, whites, “others”, and a group of older women known as “the golden girls”, there is a sector of living. Blacks in one block, with a bathroom only for them, whites in another, etc. Conflict theory and symbolic interactionism are both excellent theories to examine this series by. Conflict theory, a multi-part theory about both race and gender, is applicable to Orange Is The New Black because of the degrading treatment of the women and the denial of their basic feminine needs. Symbolic interactionism can be applied to most situations that occur in the show. Through these theories social interactions in Orange Is The New Black can be looked at and better understood.

Piper Kerman, a freelance producer living in New York City with her boyfriend, was incarcerated in 2004 for money laundering and drug trafficking. She tells this story in her memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. Kerman tells her audience about her escapades in her twenties, and her normal life afterwards. But one day she is greeted with two police officers at her door, and things go downhill from there. Kerman is later arrested after a very lengthy court case and taken to federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Kerman makes light of her year spent in prison, writing about the different people she met and the experiences she had. Overall, Kerman’s memoir is an easy and fun read

“Orange Is the New Black” is a modern memoir that leads you through Piper Kerman’s experiences in Danbury, a women’s correctional facility, and shows you the life within the cold walls. Her words magnify the greatness within everybody, even the ones who have been thought to not even contain a heart, not even a soul within their body. The people who have been encaged, locked up behind bars. “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander is an extraordinarily-written modern book, completely opposite of Piper Kerman’s memoir. It shows the challenges that most of the colored and Latino men face once they are framed as a criminal, as well as the stereotypical treatment they receive as human beings. While Piper Kerman’s book shows the happiness and good in all the different types of people, gay, black, white, straight, transgender, Latino, Buddhist, Catholic, or a stone cold killer, Michelle Alexander points out the fact that African Americans are being treated the way they used to, being looked at no differently than slaves.

Television shows, the internet, books, and movies all play an integral role in setting social standards because popular culture affects such a great amount of people. This allows some forms of media, such as online series, to influence people’s thoughts, especially when looking at different stereotypes that can be positive, or negative, A clear example of this can be seen in the popular Netflix series, Orange is the New Black, which follows the story of a wealthy white women, Piper, who is sentenced to jail for drug smuggling. The show's goal is to display how life in prison really is for inmates, but the show does far more than that. Orange is the New Black delves into the racial, ethnic, and sexual constraints that these inmates face, which

During the process of producing a television series, the demand for the producers to introduce their characters with only their highlighted traits make it impossible for viewers to gain a deep understanding of the community that the characters represent. One of the stereotypic traits that is usually seen on movies and television shows is societal difference that each race is placed into. Michael Omi in his article In Living Color: Race and American Culture stated that “in contemporary television and film, there is a tendency to present and equate racial minority groups and individuals with specific social problems” (546). There are many films and television shows found today that ground racial minorities into a specific social problems that are related to the color of their skin. It can be inferred from the current popular culture that this stereotype still persists.

The speech I attended was a panel of women who had all previously been to prison. This panel was particularly interesting because these women were the inspiration for the television series Orange is the New Black. The Netflix original series is based on Piper Kerman’s book of the same name. The book was based on her experience in the women’s prison Danbury, which is located in Connecticut. Piper wrote about her personal story and the stories of many of the women she interacted with. Several of these very women came to Suffolk University to give a talk on their own personal experience in the prison system and their thoughts on the television series.

Orange is the New Black illustrates the corrupt and dysfunctional nature that has manifested through the American prison system via Piper Kerman’s pivotal personal experience of living in a women’s prison for a year.

African Americans are not always seen in a positive light, they are usually seen in controversial and misrepresented images in the media. "Research on the portrayal of African Americans in prime-time television from 1955 to 1986 found that only 6 percent of the characters were African-Americans, while 89 percent of the TV population was white. Among these African-American characters, 19 percent lacked a high school diploma and 47 percent were low in economic status." The idea of African Americans being well represented is a debate of ownership diversity which affects content

Although I enjoyed reading Piper Kerman’s Orange Is the New Black for its storytelling, I continuously kept finding myself actively working to engage with it as a prison memoir. I think that I was subconsciously comparing her memoir to the previous representations that we have read and, therefore, I struggled with the less apparent punishment in it. I’m having trouble reconciling this, as Kerman has spent time as an incarcerated person. Her entry into the narrative contains stories of her deciding to “live her own life” (5), having the ability to choose her own lawyer (21), and even receiving large-sums of mail (70), which makes me begin to view her story as just a hiatus from an already privileged life, rather than a punitive sentence.

This show was created to young black women who feel alienated from the society and have to dress, speak a certain way and who have to follow a certain type of bureaucracy in order for them to fit in. This show was also created for black women who do not have any anomie and have to do some unlawful things in order to survive.

Friendship and betrayal are central themes in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, which takes place in a women’s prison where the environment is a lot like an all-women’s college. The female prisoners, the show suggests, are “just like us,” worried about interpersonal relationships as much as they are about survival. But the show seems to rely too much on stereotypes about women living in close quarters—that they’re concerned with appearance, catty, and often manipulative. At the same time, OITNB gives a woman’s version of the prison narrative, a genre that has its roots in social protest, and the show, along with the author of the titular book, Piper Kerman, uses the soap-opera format to persuade viewers that reforms are needed because

Orange is The New Black is a new and innovative series aired on Netflix that follows the life of Piper Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling. Chapman was sentenced to fifteen months and serves her prison term at Litchfield Correctional Facility. She acquired the charge of criminal conspiracy after transporting a suitcase full of drug money to her then drug-running girlfriend Alex Vause, who is portrayed by Laura Prepon. Piper’s decade-old crime finally caught up to her. She has to give up her upper-class routine and her fiancé Larry, portrayed by Jason Biggs, for an orange jumpsuit and the new prison environment she was hoping to elude. The series follows Chapman’s unique experiences inside the prison, explores her interactions with other inmates and shows her animosity towards her ex-girlfriend Alex who happens to be in the same prison.

Orange is the new black is a show that basis women's views from a prison who are not terrible people however they ended up doing something if not for themselves but for someone else that gets them in trouble with the law. Necessarily wasn't the best idea or the right thing to do. The women are viewed as being strong or weak emotionally independent, dependent.

The Netflix series Orange Is the New Black has caused some controversy referring to the experiences of the women in prison and contains different types of characters from lesbians, bisexuals and transgender as well as references to Latinas, Russians, blacks and whites. For my proposal, I will be doing a feminist analysis on the first season of OITNB, concentrating on the first three episodes [I wasn’t ready, Tit punch & Lesbian request denied] and specifying on 4 main characters: Piper, Big Boo Sophia and Sophia.

However, it is within this very frame which lies one of the show’s main issues in its portrayal of women of color. In an interview, Jenji Kohan, the creator of the show described Piper