Stereotypes Of African American Women Essay

Being raised in an African American family has shown me how to keep a “Cool pose” as Major and Billson puts it, and how to be a better mother to my future children from watching my mother and grandmother. You have to know how to deal with certain situations in the appropriate manner. I don’t believe only black men have to put on a pose, but that also black women have to so as well. There’s different types of black women in this society and they all have different roles that they play. Growing up in a black household, you may experience different parenting styles form both parents. We learn so much growing up and watching our parents that we sometimes don’t see that there is repetition going on in our older lives today.
I understand that black men have it rough in society, and that they have to put on this mask that everything is good but in reality it’s not. But I feel as through women do so as well, for example, if there was something my mother struggled with she wouldn’t let my siblings or me know, but instead …show more content…
We are to believe that our roles are to be domestic, submissive, nurturing, supporting, and etc., but who are we to limit ourselves to just those things. During slavery times, more black mothers were seen as mammies because they took better care of white children then of their own children which made them then bad mothers to their own. Black women are seen as Jezebels such as thots, hoes, and etc., or matriarchs which is a bad mother, manless, aggressive, emasculating or the welfare mother who’s lazy, bad mother, dependents on the government. I don’t understand why they have to be stereotyped as bad mothers, it just depends on the situation their in and how they handle it. I can see myself as being the black lady which is someone who went to school, has a good job, independent but I would have a husband and wouldn’t neglect my children for my