Personal Cultural Narrative
It was the year 1996 and a little girl was both to two African American parents, Karen and William Garrett, a traditional family. At the 12:36 pm, Karenya D. Garrett was born in Prince George County, Maryland. Throughout most of her childhood, she spent traveling around the world and even though she was not able to create some memory of it, she still had the chance to experience it. From being a small child, she was thought to try to help other, that there is not an “i” in the word team. That it better to be a part of a group of people who you can depend on and help each other strive towards the best that each person can be. Being a female and identifying as a female and being a little girl, she was thought to …show more content…
But as if being born a female and identifying as a female was not already hard enough, being African-American female was the ultimate icing on the cake for her. As she continues to grow older so did her cultural mindset. Throughout her college years and the things that have happened in the past few years, she starting to reevaluate some of the things that she once thought she knew. She did not like how the media culture were portraying African American women, making them loud, dirty, and obnoxious creatures. She saw how the older black films always had the theme of black love and black power. The overall message in any black media that she saw how you always have to work twice as hard to get half as much as them, you being the African American race and them being their white counterparts. She started to get more into her ethnic identity, for example, she started wearing her naturally curly hair and not straightening it consistently like she did for the past 7 years. Her clothing is starting to change as well, wanting to wear more of the traditional African clothing, dashikis, she wanted to learn more about her African background and dig deeper into her roots. She wanted to become more encultured and be bought into a whole other
It was the year 1996 and a little girl was both to two African American parents, Karen and William Garrett, a traditional family. At the 12:36 pm, Karenya D. Garrett was born in Prince George County, Maryland. Throughout most of her childhood, she spent traveling around the world and even though she was not able to create some memory of it, she still had the chance to experience it. From being a small child, she was thought to try to help other, that there is not an “i” in the word team. That it better to be a part of a group of people who you can depend on and help each other strive towards the best that each person can be. Being a female and identifying as a female and being a little girl, she was thought to …show more content…
But as if being born a female and identifying as a female was not already hard enough, being African-American female was the ultimate icing on the cake for her. As she continues to grow older so did her cultural mindset. Throughout her college years and the things that have happened in the past few years, she starting to reevaluate some of the things that she once thought she knew. She did not like how the media culture were portraying African American women, making them loud, dirty, and obnoxious creatures. She saw how the older black films always had the theme of black love and black power. The overall message in any black media that she saw how you always have to work twice as hard to get half as much as them, you being the African American race and them being their white counterparts. She started to get more into her ethnic identity, for example, she started wearing her naturally curly hair and not straightening it consistently like she did for the past 7 years. Her clothing is starting to change as well, wanting to wear more of the traditional African clothing, dashikis, she wanted to learn more about her African background and dig deeper into her roots. She wanted to become more encultured and be bought into a whole other