The movie Hidden Figures was designed to address issues of gender and racial inequality during the Jim Crow Era. The movie revolves around three African-American woman Katherine Globe, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaugh. Each one of these ladies had their own unique impact on the United States mission into outer space. Through these characters the audience experience how inequality affected women, African-Americans, and African-American women then and now. Conclusively, the movie Hidden Figures was made to raise serious thought-provoking realization about current and past social norms against moral equality.
Movie Key Points Hidden Figures involves three African American women in 1961 during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet …show more content…
Therefore, Katherine is force to run to another building everyday just to go to the bathroom. Eventually Al had enough of Katherine leaving the office and confronts her in front of the team. Katherine emotionally states the inconvenience she goes through daily because there is not a bathroom for her. Therefore, Mr. Harrison decides to knock down the colored bathroom signs. Afterwards, Mary goes to court and convinces the judge to allow her to be the first black person to attend night classes at the all-white school to complete the courses needed to get into the engineering program. Additionally, Dorothy understands the IBM computer will replace her and her colleagues. Nevertheless, Dorothy teachers herself how to function the FORTRAN program. After Dorothy proves she knows how to use the FORTRAN she is promoted to supervise the Programming Department. Then Dorothy trains her colleagues how to run the program which ultimately saves their …show more content…
I believe this is an important film because it manifested the racial and gender discrimination during this time period. Furthermore, I found it interesting for Hidden Figures to showcase the prejudice African-American men had on African-American women. This aspect significantly showed even in a marginalize group of people the women were marginalize to a further extent in the African-American community. Berdahl and Moore (2006) studies on workplace harassment concludes, “Minority women were significantly more harassed than minority men, majority women and minority men when both ethnic and sexual harassment were combined into an overall measure of harassment” (p.432). Therefore, Hidden Figures was intriguing because it brought up the uncommon viewpoint of the double discrimination African-American women face during this time period. Furthermore, even today many struggles minority women endured are usually perceived as women struggle or minority struggle. Crenshaw (1989) states, “Black women’s Blackness or femaleness sometimes has placed their needs and perspectives at the margin of the feminist and Black liberationist agendas” (p.150). Conclusively, Hidden Figures was a fascinating and enjoyable movie to exhibit multiculturalism in
Movie Key Points Hidden Figures involves three African American women in 1961 during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet …show more content…
Therefore, Katherine is force to run to another building everyday just to go to the bathroom. Eventually Al had enough of Katherine leaving the office and confronts her in front of the team. Katherine emotionally states the inconvenience she goes through daily because there is not a bathroom for her. Therefore, Mr. Harrison decides to knock down the colored bathroom signs. Afterwards, Mary goes to court and convinces the judge to allow her to be the first black person to attend night classes at the all-white school to complete the courses needed to get into the engineering program. Additionally, Dorothy understands the IBM computer will replace her and her colleagues. Nevertheless, Dorothy teachers herself how to function the FORTRAN program. After Dorothy proves she knows how to use the FORTRAN she is promoted to supervise the Programming Department. Then Dorothy trains her colleagues how to run the program which ultimately saves their …show more content…
I believe this is an important film because it manifested the racial and gender discrimination during this time period. Furthermore, I found it interesting for Hidden Figures to showcase the prejudice African-American men had on African-American women. This aspect significantly showed even in a marginalize group of people the women were marginalize to a further extent in the African-American community. Berdahl and Moore (2006) studies on workplace harassment concludes, “Minority women were significantly more harassed than minority men, majority women and minority men when both ethnic and sexual harassment were combined into an overall measure of harassment” (p.432). Therefore, Hidden Figures was intriguing because it brought up the uncommon viewpoint of the double discrimination African-American women face during this time period. Furthermore, even today many struggles minority women endured are usually perceived as women struggle or minority struggle. Crenshaw (1989) states, “Black women’s Blackness or femaleness sometimes has placed their needs and perspectives at the margin of the feminist and Black liberationist agendas” (p.150). Conclusively, Hidden Figures was a fascinating and enjoyable movie to exhibit multiculturalism in