The impact of stereotypes depicted in the media, still has an effect on individuals in society today. As a young black African American women who often speaks her mind, with a very strong personality, people may very well stereotype me as a “Angry Black Women” commonly depicted on black television shows seen today. “Schemas of how people are likely to behave based simply on the groups to which they belong are known as stereotypes.” (Feist, G. & Rosenberg, E.2012). Stereotypes, form conclusions about people before even interacting with them based on a certain race ethnicity or even how you may look, down to the clothes you wear. As a result, we end up judging people not by their actions, but by our notions of how they might act based on what
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The show still runs on TV at night and is also available on DVD. The series is comedy centered on the life of an African-American family that moved from the harsh and curl city of Chicago into the suburbs. Stereotyping the Freeman family lives as black people who so called advanced in the world by moving up their social status in society. The show has three main charters, Robert Freeman the grandfather of both Huey and Riley Freeman. I strongly feel this show helps to promotes prejudice and discrimination through stereotyping.
Huey Freeman is a smart young black man with knowledge beyond his years. Huey in a way represents the radical black advocate of the 70’s-90’s. He has a big black Afro, and is the leader of many radical organizations, such as “A.F.R.O”. On the show Huey once stated “Ronald Regan is the Devil,” and “The government is lying about 9/11.” Huey’s character fight against the stereotypes of being ignorant and uneducated as most black people are portrayed to be. Huey also represent a radical black, but shows that there are blacks that do not fit into the typical stereotype of an “ignorant” …show more content…
He is probably the most outlandish character on this show. He is a black man, who hates everything black even black people. He is extremely racist to other blacks and uses derogatory terms such as “ape.” He contently shows prejudice, Uncle Ruckus charter believes he is an adopted “white” male with a disease called “re-vitiligo,” which turned his skin black and causes him to get blacker each year. In the show his mother has tried to make her physical appearances more “white,” by wearing a blonde wig and changing her eye color to blue. Uncle Ruckus represents the result of the brainwashing that has defined society today. The stereotype of being of Caucasian decent, is to be born with certain privileges. Due to this, people of many other races have chemically altered their hair, skin, like Michael Jackson, just to be placed in this category of “beautiful” an accepted by
The show still runs on TV at night and is also available on DVD. The series is comedy centered on the life of an African-American family that moved from the harsh and curl city of Chicago into the suburbs. Stereotyping the Freeman family lives as black people who so called advanced in the world by moving up their social status in society. The show has three main charters, Robert Freeman the grandfather of both Huey and Riley Freeman. I strongly feel this show helps to promotes prejudice and discrimination through stereotyping.
Huey Freeman is a smart young black man with knowledge beyond his years. Huey in a way represents the radical black advocate of the 70’s-90’s. He has a big black Afro, and is the leader of many radical organizations, such as “A.F.R.O”. On the show Huey once stated “Ronald Regan is the Devil,” and “The government is lying about 9/11.” Huey’s character fight against the stereotypes of being ignorant and uneducated as most black people are portrayed to be. Huey also represent a radical black, but shows that there are blacks that do not fit into the typical stereotype of an “ignorant” …show more content…
He is probably the most outlandish character on this show. He is a black man, who hates everything black even black people. He is extremely racist to other blacks and uses derogatory terms such as “ape.” He contently shows prejudice, Uncle Ruckus charter believes he is an adopted “white” male with a disease called “re-vitiligo,” which turned his skin black and causes him to get blacker each year. In the show his mother has tried to make her physical appearances more “white,” by wearing a blonde wig and changing her eye color to blue. Uncle Ruckus represents the result of the brainwashing that has defined society today. The stereotype of being of Caucasian decent, is to be born with certain privileges. Due to this, people of many other races have chemically altered their hair, skin, like Michael Jackson, just to be placed in this category of “beautiful” an accepted by