Living in the 21st century, one can’t deny the impact of modern technology. With the rapid advancements in modern technology, people now have the access to the media and popular culture is readily available in larger quantities than before. The wide access to media and popular culture has opened the new generations up to for more communication. According to the scholar Grossberg, “we live in a world of media communication where we can travel great distances and across centuries, all in the comfort of our own living rooms.” With the creations of personal computers such as Macs, the world wide web, and many other modern technology, there is an increasingly easier way to gain access to endless popular cultural items that include, but not limited
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From time to time, television’s hegemonic approach subliminally sends stereotypical negative images of Black people that reflect the mainstream popular culture. Although each Black person in the world has their own identity, the United States black popular culture is often highlighted and seen as most important because it is within the U.S. and U.S culture is increasingly imported into the entire world. This means that black culture internationally is determined by the effect of black popular culture and media in the United States. Black popular culture is the part of all black culture that is concerned with daily life activities, pleasure, amusement; this directly represents the identity and politics of black culture according to each culture’s beliefs, values, experiences, and social institutions. According the Stuart Hall, black popular culture originates as involving style, music, and the use of the body as a canvas of representation. The idea of good media deals with authentic black popular culture that refers to black experiences, black expressivity, and black counter narratives. Some of the distinguishing features of positive popular culture displayable deal with its components of people, objects, activities, events, and the arts, theological aspects, …show more content…
Some historical realities point at positive contributions in the black community has made in society. The legacy of educational institutions developed in the African American community (emergence of historically black colleges such as Howard and Morehouse), and the rich religious heritage (the African American Baptist movement and the Pentecostal involvement in civil rights) point to the ingenuity and inventiveness of the black community. Some of the other great examples of Black excellence were the invention of jazz in Harlem during the Renaissance as well as the unprecedented art and literature that came out of the Harlem Renaissance movement, as well as the many contributions African Americans have made to every war in US history. These positive aspects of African American history can be taught to counter false ideas about Race. Race is not just skin color, but culture, history, and experience. Society has a crazy way of handing us the misfits, condemning the outsiders, idolizing certain races, and alienating the strange. In reality, one must describe how they fit into the world everyday instead of how the media says they should act. I identify myself not with a race or color, but with whom I think I am. I should not be defined by my color of skin, feeling, or
From time to time, television’s hegemonic approach subliminally sends stereotypical negative images of Black people that reflect the mainstream popular culture. Although each Black person in the world has their own identity, the United States black popular culture is often highlighted and seen as most important because it is within the U.S. and U.S culture is increasingly imported into the entire world. This means that black culture internationally is determined by the effect of black popular culture and media in the United States. Black popular culture is the part of all black culture that is concerned with daily life activities, pleasure, amusement; this directly represents the identity and politics of black culture according to each culture’s beliefs, values, experiences, and social institutions. According the Stuart Hall, black popular culture originates as involving style, music, and the use of the body as a canvas of representation. The idea of good media deals with authentic black popular culture that refers to black experiences, black expressivity, and black counter narratives. Some of the distinguishing features of positive popular culture displayable deal with its components of people, objects, activities, events, and the arts, theological aspects, …show more content…
Some historical realities point at positive contributions in the black community has made in society. The legacy of educational institutions developed in the African American community (emergence of historically black colleges such as Howard and Morehouse), and the rich religious heritage (the African American Baptist movement and the Pentecostal involvement in civil rights) point to the ingenuity and inventiveness of the black community. Some of the other great examples of Black excellence were the invention of jazz in Harlem during the Renaissance as well as the unprecedented art and literature that came out of the Harlem Renaissance movement, as well as the many contributions African Americans have made to every war in US history. These positive aspects of African American history can be taught to counter false ideas about Race. Race is not just skin color, but culture, history, and experience. Society has a crazy way of handing us the misfits, condemning the outsiders, idolizing certain races, and alienating the strange. In reality, one must describe how they fit into the world everyday instead of how the media says they should act. I identify myself not with a race or color, but with whom I think I am. I should not be defined by my color of skin, feeling, or