Black Perception
Over the course of the past four months I have been introduced to some core areas of African American Studies. I will be focusing on the history, sociology, politics, and religion of my topic. The most broad but well used and understood topic in the world is media. The world is based on the aspects of what we watch, see, read, and hear. Other than attending school, the media is the one of the other things that help us understand life. Everyone perceives different things that they see and hear. One of the most continuous perceptions that has maintained over the years is the perception of African Americans. Talking about the four core areas of this will help to understand the struggle of African Americans throughout the years.
African Americans have come a long way from slavery and they make up a huge part of society being the largest racial minority in the United States. Blacks were perceived to be like animals because mostly animals lived in Africa. So because others thought they were animals, they were treated like animals. If they were told and treated like they were animals for long enough, then they will eventually start to believe that they were. I couldn't imagine being treated with so much hatred and disgust towards me, especially in the society I live in today where racism isn't as big as a problem like it was 50 years ago.
Many people would love to pick and choose their race but unfortunately that's impossible and you can't help what color you are. Although, even if you are white, you can still be considered black. According to Regina Fuller in an article she wrote, "In the US, race is centered on the "one drop rule," a rule during slavery and post-slavery society that designated a person with any Af...
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industry and their tactics as they portrayal and perceive blacks in the entertainment industry. In Bamboozled we follow the life of Pierre Delacroix who is a Harvard graduate and now an executive at a television network. The network finds itself under pressure to produce a hit and Delacroix boss want shim to create something more edgy to capture the attention of the viewers. But what is thought to be crazy is that his boss is a white man who has a black wife and two biracial kids. And he feels as though
changed. American media found its place for the Black Women. Since her first soiree in the public eye the Black women has been the token friend on the guest list. Doing her best to socialize, she is first ignored, then overly simplified and surmised to be one dimensional. First, the “mammy.” Then, the “Jezebel,” the “baby mama,” the “gold digger,” and the “sassy sidekick.” Why has no one taken the time to get to know her? Society’s perception of black women has been molded by media portrayal. This
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it out with this instrument, our eye" (Introduction to Perception [Online]). As you can see by this quote, sight is a very complicated process that is easily controlled by our eyes. However, perceptual illusions need a little more explaining. Take an instant to observe the world around you. If you tilt your head, the rest of the world does not tilt along with you. If you close on of your eyes, you don't suddenly lose your depth perception. Shades of color seem to vary under different levels
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count the legs, due to irregular lines. Another example of an optical illusion is the Hermann Grid Illusion, in which a grid with black boxes and gray lines appears to have black dots on the white circles. It does not, in reality,
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should he? This is the upmost quality that makes his stand out from his competitors in the poetic industry. An interesting theme though which Wallace truly enjoys writing about, in all seriousness, is something thought provoking- perception. The book definition of perception is “appending [something] by the means of senses or the mind” . In his poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, Stevens offers multiple definitions of this single concept. It just depends on what the reader can decipher
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