Ota Benga's In Body Language

In body language was about the fascination with the black body and interpreting the black body 's dramatic role in America and the media. In the book the author was an emigrated from Ghana when she move to America she start to become aware of her blackness and how the word black describe everything about her in America but nothing in Ghana for example “ I emigrated with my family from Ghana to America. I don’t remember ever being aware of my blackness before them, I guess that was one of the privilege of living in a predominantly black country. In American it was the exact opposite, I was always keenly aware of my blackness nearly every second of every day”. I understand the author experience because before I transfer to UMBC I didn’t have to worry about my blackness for the reason that most people in my community was black as a result I never have the experience being the black friend or black student in a predominantly white area.
In Body Language its discussion
Louis world’s fair and Bronx zoo. He was placed in monkey house and shared a cage with orangutan and a parrot. They have him on display to prove racial myth and stereotype. Ota was removed from the zoo and place in an orphanage asylum where people was attempts to education him. However, he was depressed when he realizes that he can’t return to his homeland and shot himself in the heart.
The media also have affect the black body with popular culture because it bring the attention from around the world with commercials and print ads. The media used the black body in negative way such as Benneton who used a photographer of “bare-breasted black woman nursing a newborn white infant.” Which keep alive the stereotype of the black nanny. Although this photograph has won award in European country it was hating by black population in