The American film industry has based the content of movies on real life issues. In everyday life these issues are handled with sensitivity as they are an implicit part of society. The stories which individual are unwilling to talk about are stigmatized by society, therefore, an individual may suffer in silence. Tyler Perry has produced a sequel to Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls.” It was first produced as a prose poem, influenced by the period of black power and feminist movement. The poem provide a powerful metaphor in its final scene of ladies in (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple) -the colors of the rainbow symbolically represent women and children who have suffered at the hand of an offender. Through the art form of poetry
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Movies like Tyler Perry’s product testimony of social issues and national epidemic sexual and gender violence. It paints a picture of the reality of African American women who are 11 times more at risk of been abused or murdered in violent circumstances. This is a historic part of the culture, as is stated by Malcom X his speech, -“Who taught you to hate yourself. Malcom X expressed that, “the must disrespected person in America is the Black Women, the most unprotected person in American is the black woman, and the most mistreated person in America is the black …show more content…
This is indicative of its presence throughout the generations. Though it was mostly viewed as a normal part of marriage or intimate relations, in modern times it has been recognized as a crime, toward the end of the twentieth century into the 1970s. Many literature authors of the twentieth century have written about the subject of gender violence. Zora Neal Horton’s -“Sweat” written in 1926 is undoubtedly a symbol of the politics of social inequality between gender, power and race. This is literary work is valued from the feminist point of view, which was born around the same period Hurston’s poem was written. Hurston’s poetry is also a part of African American History. This was a period in history when the role African Americans played in the development of United Stated was been
Movies like Tyler Perry’s product testimony of social issues and national epidemic sexual and gender violence. It paints a picture of the reality of African American women who are 11 times more at risk of been abused or murdered in violent circumstances. This is a historic part of the culture, as is stated by Malcom X his speech, -“Who taught you to hate yourself. Malcom X expressed that, “the must disrespected person in America is the Black Women, the most unprotected person in American is the black woman, and the most mistreated person in America is the black …show more content…
This is indicative of its presence throughout the generations. Though it was mostly viewed as a normal part of marriage or intimate relations, in modern times it has been recognized as a crime, toward the end of the twentieth century into the 1970s. Many literature authors of the twentieth century have written about the subject of gender violence. Zora Neal Horton’s -“Sweat” written in 1926 is undoubtedly a symbol of the politics of social inequality between gender, power and race. This is literary work is valued from the feminist point of view, which was born around the same period Hurston’s poem was written. Hurston’s poetry is also a part of African American History. This was a period in history when the role African Americans played in the development of United Stated was been