West African American Beauty Pageants

The Perfect Female Body: Long before beauty pageants, Barbie dolls, and extra-ordinarily beautiful girls, came about the idea of the female body. Whether you are a believer of creationalism, scientology, or evolutionism, somehow we all came about with the perception of the “perfect” female. Women have always been seen, and portrayed as a sex symbol, and usually the disobedient one. Dating back to B.C and the story of Adam and Eve, Eve was the naked one who bit into the fruit that god told

may be. It is in our human nature to not like people for certain things that they are. Many will argue that in this day in age we are no longer at a race war but how can you be so sure when you actually open your eyes and see reality. Rapper Kanye West once said “racism is still alive, they just be concealing it” and these words are everything but false. You must ask yourself the real question about racism and it is how could you ever cure such a thing in people’s minds? People are free to think

on how to live in order to achieve the look deemed normal. Young women grow up believing that they need to be beautiful in order to be accepted. Only the catch is, the idea of beauty beat into their heads is an ideal impossible to achieve healthily and naturally by the majority of women. The perpetuation of Western beauty standards is an ideal that causes harm to young women, and especially young women of color.

Dogeaters is Jessica Hagedorn’s first novel. The author returned to her native Philippines in 1988 to write the work, and it was published in 1990 when it received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The novel reflects the eclectic life of its author whose experiences have included acting, singing, songwriting, and writing poetry, drama, and fiction. For the most part, Dogeaters has been well received by critics and scholars who commend its experimental nature and innovative

Globalization (2004) Emulated through Images: The Globalization of Misconstructed African American Beauty and Hip-Hop Culture Kerri A. Reddick-Morgan Georgia State University kreddick1@student.gsu.edu Abstract From news coverage to entertainment, the media shapes, reflects, reinforces and defines the world in which we live. In publishing, theatre, films, television and popular music-industries largely controlled by white men--Blacks continually struggle for both a voice and representation.

Her mother finds her unconscious on the floor, Pauline does not believe Pecola’s story and beats her instead. Pecola ends up going to Soaphead Church, a fake West Indian sorcerer for blue eyes. Instead, he uses her to kill a dog he hates. Claudia and Frieda are Pecola’s friends who feel bad for her unlike the rest of the neighborhood when they find out her father impregnated her. They do many sacrifices over

Southern Musical Tradition and the African Tradition The second major tributary of the southern musical tradition comes from the African continent and is the heritage import of the five million slaves brought to North America against their will to provide the bulk of the labor in the pre-industrial agrarian south. Contemporary blues, while not exclusively black music by any means, remains largely black in terms of its leading performers and, to a lesser

the Image of Arab Character in Shakespeare's Othello Abstract William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. He was the most famous English playwright wrote during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and the rule of king James I. Queen Elizabeth I and king James I have a different vision and relationship with the Arabic world. Thus , while Queen Elizabeth chose to be in closer alliance

narrow-mindedness of western scholars and nurtures a substantial challenge to those scholars who deliberately write in stereotyped and dehumanizing ways about “the East” in order to build an imaginary costume-made “Other”. According to him, the west intended to create this distinction to highlight and emphasis the superiority of the western identity over the

individuals feel self conscious of themselves when the discussion of weight is surfaced. Society, in particular the American society, has placed emphasis on being a certain weight, and at the same time viewing a person who is over a specific size as overweight and undesirable, as well as having a low socioeconomic status (SES). In comparison to the American society, in the African society, an individual’s weight is viewed as being part of a medium-to-high socioeconomic status in which they are able