For Colored Girls This movie gave a very good view of family life. There were many families portrayed in this film. The social context was the family of black girls from teens to adults. They portrayed the difficulty of their lives and how hard it was to live in their families in their neighborhood. One of the women was abused by her drunk husband, another woman was raped by a man that she trusted and thought she was friends with. Another woman just liked to have sex with men for fun. A teenage girl gave up her virginity and got pregnant. All of theses different problems are things that many colored girls have to live with everyday. This gave a great portrayal of how it felt to be them and live in their shoes. All of the lives portrayed were tough lives to live, even Jo’s life even though she was successful and rich, she was not happy with her marriage. She realized later in the movie when the kids were killed that she didn’t care enough about other people or pay attention to their problems enough, she was too self-centered. Nyla was a good girl who was getting a scholarship to go to college and she was the only virgin in her class on the day they graduated. She then decided she wanted to have sex and got pregnant. Her mother was very religious and was very disappointed in Nyla and her sister Tanjee for having sex outside of marriage. Their mother was mostly disappointed because she was the same way at their age and didn’t want them to turn out like her. I realized that it is very tough to be black woman and how different their culture is from me, a white male. Their lives are very different even from each other. The film gave many different perspectives from a couple older single women, a couple younger single women, younger married women, and even a teenager. I think that this movie showed that it’s kind of expected for the younger generation girls to have sex in high school or at least before they are married. While the older generation did it too, it was more prevalent in the younger ones. It also showed that black men expect to be in charge of their women and that they almost completely control them. This was displayed with Yasmine who was raped, the man expected to have sex with her whether she wanted to or not. She was not willing to have sex with him yet so he raped her. Also with Bo and Crystal, he
different kinds of diseases than we do.” (Page 8.) 2. “I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the negro side of town. I want to stop that moment from coming – and it come in every white child's life – when they start to think that colored folks are not as good as whites.” (Page 96.) 3. “Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.” (Page 173.) My first…
smart man to be a clerk in the office if they’re colored. “That’s why I sometimes get a kick out putting something over on the boss, who never dreams he’s got a colored secretary” (Hughes, 52). This quote indicates that Jack has to go through racism indirectly because whites are doing racist things to the people around him that are African-American also. White people go out of their way to be racist or express their thoughts and racist views on colored people. White people do not act racist or indifferent…
Assignment October 12, 2014 The idea that blue represents boys and pink for girls is still very apparent in this day and age. Gender specific toys, games and ideals are still very common in the 21st century. We know that scientifically, boys and girls are made up differently. But children early on determine what is appropriate for boys and girls. It is assumed that boys are rougher, like to build and get dirty while girls are more nurturing, play with dolls and like to dress up. “From childhood…
in America for colored people. With me being in a Sociology class, and understanding some of the terminology more clearly, it has giving me a different insight on the culture, gender, and social interaction with people of color. The film starts with a caucasian young lady, Eugenia Phelan also known as “Skeeter”, who is wanting to pursue her dream as a writer. She’s living in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960’s where segregation is still happening. According to the film, “No colored barber shall serve…
of how horrible some of the racism got to be. In class we learned about a girl named Ruby who was the only colored girl in her school. Ruby walked to and from school every day with the instructions to look straight ahead and never look back or talk to anyone. The reason for this being that she was always being yelled at by adults and children from houses and churches. Things like the “N” word and to people telling the girl, who was under the age of ten at the time, that she was going to die. At one…
Yinqi Liu Joy Ellison CSS 201 Apr 19, 2015 Response Paper #2 When I was a little girl and I heard about charity, I would think It is rich people give money to the poor and in the way to help the people need to maintain their lives. Now I am an adult and I am not rich. But I will try to help people by delivering service to them or give away some money when they need. I wound see myself and agree what Addams, Day, and Dewey mentioned in the reading that the language of charity was replaced as service…
Child Beauty Pageants: A Glamorized Form of Child Abuse A little girl, four-year-old Karley, stands in the middle of her kitchen. She has been placed atop scattered newspapers on the floor and is dressed in a bikini. She screams out in terror as her mommy approaches her with a spray can. There is no escape for Karley now. The moment she dreads most has arrived. The cold mist from the spray can hits her bare shoulders as Karley squirms, cries, and stomps her feet. Her little body shakes as if…
extreme stand on racial issues, which are still experienced today. When a person says “ colored person” to a white man, “ he immediately, either through an ignorance that is deliberate or stupid, conjures up in his mind the picture of what he calls ‘the darkey’”( Grimke). She believed that all colored people are carefree and under all circumstances amusing people. The play Rachel is about a young, caring girl who comes face to face with the meaning of motherhood. Rachel falls in love with a white…
mid-summer of 1910 a man named W.E.B Du Bois, a scholar, teacher, historian and spokesman for the world's "darker races," founded a publication called The Crisis. This was the official publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and attacked lynching and all forms of discrimination. This new magazine had about 1,000 readers its first year and then quickly jumped to about 100,000 readers within the next eight years. By 1922, Du Bois was on his 25th volume and was still…
We learn from the book that Tom Robinson was being accused of raping Mayella Ewell, who is Bob Ewell’s daughter. “I see that black negro ruttin’ on my Mayella”(173). This quote shows racism and prejudice because white people had more power over colored so whites would just accuse colored people of anything they didn’t do, just like what Bob Ewell did. He did his very best to make himself sound very convincing, and that he saw him raping his daughter. Atticus then pulls facts out of the evidence to prove Tom Robinson’s innocence…
