The Help Theory

They were made to use separate facilities such as restrooms, restaurants, and waiting rooms. Blacks were prevented from renting land outside of the towns. They were forbidden to go anywhere they wanted. They were prevented from marrying any one outside of their race.

For instance, in Chapter 8. the white family with the sick, unwell, coughing baby did not wish to accept food and clothing from the blacks, even though they were starving and their clothing was in rags. They obviously thought that they were still better the black people. They even said, "Thank you very much, but we're white people. We ain't in need of a hand out." Blacks and whites thought of the other race as different from their own. In the past, Bud was hungry because he did not have food, but today, he would not be as

Back in 1877 throughout the 1950s and 60s, there was Jim Crow laws in the United States. The Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that stated white people and black people couldn’t go to the same schools, drink out of the same water fountains, go to the same bathrooms, go to the same parks and black people couldn’t even make contact with them. There are still many more things that blacks couldn’t do that whites could. The blacks would get tired of all of the unfairness that they received. So they protested and many of them were arrested.

In relating to the characters of The Help, the Interactionist Perspective is the major outlook on the world of sociology, which focuses on the concrete details of what goes on between three characters in their lives, how they connect to one another, why they do and believe in what they do. The Interactionist Perspective summarizes whether the three characters have evolved or regressed throughout the movie.

The Jim Crow laws perpetuated segregation. This set of rules to show the dominance of the white race were absolutely appalling. They were mainly operated in the southern portion of the United States, but not exclusively. The Jim Crow laws “were in place from the late 1870’s until the civil rights movement began in the 1950’s” (“Jim Crow Laws”). Blacks and whites could not use the same drinking fountains, restrooms, or attend the same restaurants, churches, and schools. It was considered rape or an unwanted advance for a black man to offer his hand to a white woman. Another law was that african-american couples could not show affection towards each other in a public area because it “offended whites” (Pilgrim) along with countless more. There

The white people wanted to stop African Americans from being equal. African Americans were given freedom but still had laws they had to follow that limited their newly acquired freedoms. There were many laws made that segregated African Americans from white people. One of the Jim Crow Laws separating nursing stated, “No person or corporation required any white female nurse to nurse in hospital rooms, in which African American men are placed.” (Doc. E)

Blacks were treated like they weren't human they would have to use, ‘’Colored’’, drinking fountains and restrooms;Blacks schools and white schools were also segregated allowing

Blacks were unable to drink out of the same water fountains as whites or even allowed to walk on the same sidewalks. The southern states during this period also promoted

A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male. It implied that whites and black are socially equal. A black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked being accused of rape. Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended whites.

Even though the movie, The Help, was fiction, it was based on actual events that happened in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960’s. By watching this movie I can see how being born into a certain social structure can dictate what one’s life becomes. I also see how one person having the courage to stand up for what they believe can actually change society’s behavior. Skeeter, one of the main characters had the courage to write about the very people who helped raise her and in essence help mold her into the person she was. These people, the help, were more of parents to the white children than their own parents, the white’s in the society. I cried a lot finding it

During this time colored people still had to use separate bathrooms from whites. There was a lot of segregation between black and white people. African Americans couldn’t use the same water fountains either. Even in some restaurants they didn’t let colored people in. They even gave them their own theatres. They tried to keep colored people as separate from white people as they could.

They were segregated in restaurants and other public places, and in other ways. In restaurants black people couldn't eat in the same restaurant unless the wall was 7 feet high. Also the restaurant owners would raise their prices just for the black people to try to get them to not come to their restaurant. Sometimes they wouldn't even serve blacks, and the blacks had separate waiting rooms. Even water fountains were separate.

A Tate Taylor film, The Help (2009) emphasizes the extreme, racially-charged stereotypes thus endorses racial thinking. Blacks in this film are represented broadly as common house maids, or domestic slaves, but specifically as oppressed, unhappy, impoverished, and products of hardship through the utilization of racist stereotypes and juxtaposition with the lives of affluent whites in the southern United States, a juxtaposition which immortalizes the racial gap between whites and blacks.

African American’s role in this country has been long and has never been easy. During the early years of the United States, African Americans endure the hardship of slavery and had to deal with beatings, harsh working conditions and constant yelling from their racist white owners. Even after the abolishment of slavery, African Americans still endure another one hundred years of discrimination. A perfect way to examine a pivotal time in American History of African Americans and the racism they went through is seen in the movie “The Help”. The movie is set to take place “in Mississippi during the 1950s-1960s, Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends ' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.” (The Help) The movie was originally based on a book written by

The movie, The Help, is based on the book written by Kathryn Stockett. It was released in 2011 and directed by Tate Taylor (Taylor, 2017). The Help is set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960’s, and it is about the experiences black women had as maids for white families. These women decided to risk it all and tell their stories in an effort to show what is was really like for them (Taylor, 2011). The Help illustrates how these women fought racism and prejudice by becoming unified with one another. This paper will address how prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and inequality affect the characters and their relationships in the story.