Nicki Minaj

Hip-hop feminists, instead of being forced to participate in an anti-mysogynistic movement of the masses, hope that it will assimilate a women-centric view, where the realities of the hip-hop generation’s women are taken into heavy consideration. Nicki Minaj once told an interviewer, “When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot … and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to…

Many authors, such as Morgan Saraya, Thamar Theodore, and Siji Jabbar, recognize the importance of studying the self-perceptions of African American women. They explore the reasons why African American women have low confidence in their appearance. The authors tied this problem to mass media and members within the African American community. Through their efforts, African American women have gained more confidence in themselves since the early 2000s, but the presence of Eurocentric beauty…

The n-word is used loosely nowadays, conversations on the phone, probably hearing it at least once every day on the streets, from hip-hop songs to works of literature and cinema productions. The term as we know it today is diverse from what it was a hundred years ago when it was used during slavery. Nonetheless it can either be a taboo word or the synonym for “dude”. According to the African American Registry, “the word nigger can be traced back to the Latin word niger” which means black. It is…

Chains on Our Minds This generation is different from the generations in the past. Many things have changed over the years such as politics, phones, computers, and the internet - basically, technology as a whole. This present generation are like the people chained to the cave in Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave. In the story, prisoners are trapped in a cave and do not know real things like animals, trees and the sun. They are only used to the shadows that are displayed on the wall that is…

While it is more common today to see homosexuality in society and media, reception to the notion has not always been positive. In the early 1990s more than 33 percent of gay men and lesbians had reported being victims of interpersonal violence, hate crimes, and discrimination due to their sexual orientations (Parrot, 2008). The media has taken on the challenge of combating widespread homophobia, and seeks to portray characters and lifestyles in which its audience/followers can equally identify…

Growing up as a kid wasn’t easy for me. I always hung out with girls my entire life and only had my mother on my side no matter what. My parents aren’t divorced, but my father and I could never get along with each other. Like any other father, they always try to make their sons do things they did in the past to make us manly in the future. I was just a young boy so I did everything all the other boys did in my school and joined the football team in Elementary School. I realized that when I…

If you were to pick up a magazine off stands published in the 1930’s you would see a totally different image of the woman gracing the covers than the woman we see on covers today. Since then women have been constantly fighting for equality, smashing gender roles and expectations and embracing their sexuality. (Pittman 2015) The question is have magazines learned to adapt to the evolving woman or has it simply taped into another way for the male dominated society to exploit women? In a 2015…

Music Against Women Music has always been a part of American society and culture; it has been used as a way to create change as well as to unite people of different cultural backgrounds. Music has also been at the center of modern relief efforts in the USA where music artists have often come together to raise awareness and funds through musical collaborations. There are many genres of music for Americans to choose from, so there is a place for everyone to find what allows them self-expression.…

We had been aching for some fun that week, however none of us had any ideas on what “kind” of fun we wanted. The week was quite stressful, due to many tests, assignments, and life in general, so we decided we needed a good “stress reliever” for the weekend. I guess just like every other teenager, my friends and I live for the weekend, because we started planning the event for that weekend around Monday of that week. We had finally decided that we were going to throw a party at Summer Martin’s…

C. August Haygood COMM 6720 9 October 2014 `black•ish: a rep•re•sen•ta•tion Primetime television is a block of time that is typically scheduled between 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. Many of the programs broadcast during this portion, provide the highest audience ratings of a day for a network. The shows can range from dramas, to comedies, to reality/game shows. This is also a premier advertisement opportunity for companies and their products. Within this time frame, there has always been a…