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What is the root of poor decisions that leads one to an imprisoned life being weighed down by shackles that one created on their own? Throughout this project my question has remained the same. What is the hold up to a successful life? As I began to explore my line of inquiry I came up with a few proposals to how one can be influenced to live a destructive lifestyle where their definition of success and goals was taught to them by hiphopcracy. A strong proposal that dominated my research was stereotypes. Stereotypes is one of the most underrated but yet overexposed topics in today 's society. Without notice, it is the root of many cultural and racial problems. American stereotypes are so common that at a first encounter with a …show more content…
The reason is because it sells and it is popular in the media. Like the blackface minstrelsy performances, his films are dangerous to the minds of Americans because they are twisting the visual of how African Americans truly are. I am not saying that Tyler Perry is the reason why stereotypes exist, I actually find his films quiet funny, but I am saying works like these contribute to the stagnancy of black America. For example, the film The Diary of a Mad Black Woman contains images which has an affect on how a person may view black women. The title in itself is portraying the message that black women must be angry. One student 's blog post titled Tyler Perry Reinforces Negative Stereotypes reads “stereotypes about blacks include being uneducated, loud, violent, males sagging their pants, bad attitudes, disrespectful, Love fried chicken and Kool-Aid, and many more.” These are all stereotypical things that Tyler Perry brings to life in his films to create humor. Perry, as well as earlier African American performers such as Bert Williams or Al Jolson, are all keeping stereotypes alive, whether they realize it or …show more content…
According to Alexander’s study above, white and black women from low-income households had similar teen birth rates, but white women more often had a spouse or partner. Single parenthood being a common condition in the black community led me to believe that this is a problem that can influence destructive paths for the children born into this condition. This brought me to my next source, Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. From this article Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur wrote, children in single parent households do not receive the full attention or supervision of the parent and with the lack of guidance they are left to govern themselves when their mother or father is out of sight. To escape from their dysfunctional home and without the proper care and guidance they tend to look for outside sources that provides the attention they aren’t receiving from home which is evident when looking at crime rates in the slums of the
What is the root of poor decisions that leads one to an imprisoned life being weighed down by shackles that one created on their own? Throughout this project my question has remained the same. What is the hold up to a successful life? As I began to explore my line of inquiry I came up with a few proposals to how one can be influenced to live a destructive lifestyle where their definition of success and goals was taught to them by hiphopcracy. A strong proposal that dominated my research was stereotypes. Stereotypes is one of the most underrated but yet overexposed topics in today 's society. Without notice, it is the root of many cultural and racial problems. American stereotypes are so common that at a first encounter with a …show more content…
The reason is because it sells and it is popular in the media. Like the blackface minstrelsy performances, his films are dangerous to the minds of Americans because they are twisting the visual of how African Americans truly are. I am not saying that Tyler Perry is the reason why stereotypes exist, I actually find his films quiet funny, but I am saying works like these contribute to the stagnancy of black America. For example, the film The Diary of a Mad Black Woman contains images which has an affect on how a person may view black women. The title in itself is portraying the message that black women must be angry. One student 's blog post titled Tyler Perry Reinforces Negative Stereotypes reads “stereotypes about blacks include being uneducated, loud, violent, males sagging their pants, bad attitudes, disrespectful, Love fried chicken and Kool-Aid, and many more.” These are all stereotypical things that Tyler Perry brings to life in his films to create humor. Perry, as well as earlier African American performers such as Bert Williams or Al Jolson, are all keeping stereotypes alive, whether they realize it or …show more content…
According to Alexander’s study above, white and black women from low-income households had similar teen birth rates, but white women more often had a spouse or partner. Single parenthood being a common condition in the black community led me to believe that this is a problem that can influence destructive paths for the children born into this condition. This brought me to my next source, Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. From this article Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur wrote, children in single parent households do not receive the full attention or supervision of the parent and with the lack of guidance they are left to govern themselves when their mother or father is out of sight. To escape from their dysfunctional home and without the proper care and guidance they tend to look for outside sources that provides the attention they aren’t receiving from home which is evident when looking at crime rates in the slums of the