Media: Our Enemy or Savior

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Conclusion

    Societies ideology of being feminine and masculine are archaic. Not all men are masculine and not all women are feminine. In conclusion there is a shift in what is expected from both genders and this has nothing to do with being feminine and masculine. Women are demanding an end to pink tax and some men are staying at home to raise their children. Our society is heading down a very healthy and progressive path. We are coming more and more towards the level of equality we want but we are not there yet. This class showed me that media is a main factor in pushing towards equality. The black community needs to come together more to use media to our advantage. We need to show more support to each other as a whole when we do things to help change the world.  Instead of laughing and sharing the videos and news of us getting embarrassed or doing something wrong. Overall we’ve made huge progress in pushing towards equality compared to how it started out back then. This movement should only keep going forward from here on out till we as a whole can faithfully say we feel that we are treated equal and aren’t looked down upon as blacks anymore. 

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Tyler Perry’s Madea movies is another example of men dressing themselves up as a women for comedy use in media.

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Eddie murphy a male dressing up and acting as a women in his famous movie norbit. 

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Dwight Dickson AFS 363 December 2, 2019 Thought Paper Cross-Dressing This excerpt from the overall text, “Is Paris Burning” there is a question about whether race plays a role in people’s acceptance of those who cross dress or dress in drag. When people cross dress, it is assumed that the...

The last thought paper was about bell hooks views on transgenders and drags. Also how these type of people are viewed in society and through the use of media. 

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Iconic. 👑

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Thought Paper 2

Dwight Dickson 110942492 AFS 363 November 4, 2019 “Paris is Burning” Media contributes to the inequalities of race, gender, and class. Media plays a role in these things because of the way people use the media. The media is used to show and portray different things. People of all ages use the me...

Second thought paper. This talks about the inequalities of race and gender. A prime example is how a gay black man is looked at way worse and more frowned upon than a gay white men. Even though they are both gay the blacked man is looked at differently. 

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This is what it’s all about. There’s no reason to hate if you’ve never been done wrong. That’s just negative energy building up inside you.

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this is very important

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The Great Migration - [from the South of America to the North]

“People would migrate for many reasons, sometimes those reasons were desperation. But they also went for aspirational reasons, they wanted to have something better. 

They wanted their own slice of the American Dream and many of them had this imagination about the north, as being a place where they would be allowed to be whole people.”  - Professor of History, Carmen Harris

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“A place where they would be allowed to be whole people” key word WHOLE PEOPLE. smh

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Thought Paper 1

Dwight Dickson 110942492 October 3, 2019 AFS 363 The great black migration and the growth of the urban black press Between the years 1910 and 1920, African Americans were battling the fight against racism. The majority of the black population eventually moved North because of the impact that m...

This first thought paper was about the first big migration of blacks and how they first took part in expressing themselves and speaking in the media. They spoke about how about new beginnings they were looking forward to and their feeling towards what was going on during that time. Eventually many whites didn’t like how blacks were able to express themselves and were influencing blacks and even some whites to join then in a stand. So some whites took it upon them to make fake news and release false information. 

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Introduction

The current state of black media hasn’t looked positive for blacks as a whole in a long time. Most of the time we are still being clowned on social media, abused, or being seen as ghetto and toxic. When deep down the majority of blacks just want to be seen and treated as equals. Thats all we’ve ever wanted as a community. But constantly you only see whites on the news doing things to help the world for the better as if the black community doesn’t do anything. Only their goals and accomplishments are posted and praised. While the black community remains underground and behind the scenes. Everything we do gets questioned and looked at twice like we’re always trying to commit a crime or doing something shady. We are in the time period where this needs to be stopped. Blacks need to come together and not just fight for equality in the real world anymore but fight for equality on the mass media also. Through this i wrote 3 thought papers that spoke about how the media contributed to inequalities, gender divisions, certain representations of blackness and created obstacles for blacks in their journey of life.