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African American Women in Society Who is the African American woman and how does society depict her existence? The media has and are constantly offering that African American women are either all mad, “babymamas,” or are sitting home only to collecting government assistance on the behalf of her children as her career. To better understand the diaspora of the culture of African American women in today’s society, it is lucrative to examine the past, the present, and the future of the African American woman. In the mid-1800s, she was referred to as the Mammy. The Mammy was known for nursing the master’s kids amongst aiding in other ways. Hard-working, survivorship, and strength characterized their being. African American women encounter …show more content…
Also within the film Precious, there is a scene when Mary says “he was supposed to be my man.” Here, she’s aware that her daughter is being molested by her husband, but because her mindset was focused on needing him to make herself feel worthy, she destroyed her only child. In today’s society, African American women are being told what’s the status quo in regards to what to look like and what they have to do to be considered a “bad chick” or merely be complete. Forgetting that the “mammy” and “big mama” are the true definitions of what “bad” really is, media has found its place as the one who holds wisdom. Validity in today’s society stems from many African American women being fatherless. Iyanla Vanzant has a TV series, entitled Iyanla Fix My Life. One of the shows depicted what it is to be a daddy less daughter. The individual, whose story was being told, talked about how she looked for the love of her father in the wrong places. Not only did she become promiscuous, but there was also much anger that stemmed from that. African American women being labeled as mad is much deeper than what’s being talked about. In the article “Gold Diggers, Video Vixens, and Jezebels: Stereotype Images and Substance Use among Urban African American Girls,” it brings up self-identities and self-concept and how women can be stereotyped on how negative images turn …show more content…
Also in this article, it talked about how African American women are stereotyped by the way they display hip hop, rap music coming off as vulgar, and the way women dance in the video are seen as inappropriate. This should not judge all African American women because they are all not the same. It quoted in the article that “In 2003, Wingood et al conducted a 12-month prospective study on the exposure to the highly-sexualized content of rap music on African American females adolescents’ Sexual attitudes and choices” (Wingood). These are also facts that these behaviors encourage sexual activity behaviors for young girls from ages 14-18. It is also said that it raises the chance of these young women catching STDs. It is the way they are communicating socially, it is being communicated socially through social media, television, music videos, strip clubs, party clubs, and street events that entice these young ladies to act in a way. In the article, it talked about methods to try to reduce the decision making of these young ladies, but that didn’t seem to help the problem. It quoted “Given that current knowledge about HIV preventive behavior among African American women has not led to a reduction in the incidence of HIV infection in this
African American Women in Society Who is the African American woman and how does society depict her existence? The media has and are constantly offering that African American women are either all mad, “babymamas,” or are sitting home only to collecting government assistance on the behalf of her children as her career. To better understand the diaspora of the culture of African American women in today’s society, it is lucrative to examine the past, the present, and the future of the African American woman. In the mid-1800s, she was referred to as the Mammy. The Mammy was known for nursing the master’s kids amongst aiding in other ways. Hard-working, survivorship, and strength characterized their being. African American women encounter …show more content…
Also within the film Precious, there is a scene when Mary says “he was supposed to be my man.” Here, she’s aware that her daughter is being molested by her husband, but because her mindset was focused on needing him to make herself feel worthy, she destroyed her only child. In today’s society, African American women are being told what’s the status quo in regards to what to look like and what they have to do to be considered a “bad chick” or merely be complete. Forgetting that the “mammy” and “big mama” are the true definitions of what “bad” really is, media has found its place as the one who holds wisdom. Validity in today’s society stems from many African American women being fatherless. Iyanla Vanzant has a TV series, entitled Iyanla Fix My Life. One of the shows depicted what it is to be a daddy less daughter. The individual, whose story was being told, talked about how she looked for the love of her father in the wrong places. Not only did she become promiscuous, but there was also much anger that stemmed from that. African American women being labeled as mad is much deeper than what’s being talked about. In the article “Gold Diggers, Video Vixens, and Jezebels: Stereotype Images and Substance Use among Urban African American Girls,” it brings up self-identities and self-concept and how women can be stereotyped on how negative images turn …show more content…
Also in this article, it talked about how African American women are stereotyped by the way they display hip hop, rap music coming off as vulgar, and the way women dance in the video are seen as inappropriate. This should not judge all African American women because they are all not the same. It quoted in the article that “In 2003, Wingood et al conducted a 12-month prospective study on the exposure to the highly-sexualized content of rap music on African American females adolescents’ Sexual attitudes and choices” (Wingood). These are also facts that these behaviors encourage sexual activity behaviors for young girls from ages 14-18. It is also said that it raises the chance of these young women catching STDs. It is the way they are communicating socially, it is being communicated socially through social media, television, music videos, strip clubs, party clubs, and street events that entice these young ladies to act in a way. In the article, it talked about methods to try to reduce the decision making of these young ladies, but that didn’t seem to help the problem. It quoted “Given that current knowledge about HIV preventive behavior among African American women has not led to a reduction in the incidence of HIV infection in this