African American

Stereotypes

By: Zakiya Hoots

WHY I CHOSE THIS

Over my lifetime I’ve come to realize that many people, including myself place lots of negative stereotypes on blacks when in reality we’re not all that way. I began to notice it was everywhere.

• Television• Slave talk (dad)• My preference (implicit test)• My experience African Americans

Criminal

Less educat

edPoor

Needy

WHAT AND

WHYTo stereotype is to place a group of similar people under one category making them all the same.

Television

• kids• Less

educated

• with no self worth

• No self image

Lack of Info

• balanced judgment

• Believe what you do know

• experience

Experience

• Scapegoat

• Bond with your group

• Legitimizes discrimination

• Social identities

Automatic Implicit Stereotyping

The inclination to feel a certain way about someone because of a specific characteristic › Skin complexion› Gender› Age

We don’t pay attention to how far they go and how much they effect us all

My Foundation

•Slavery•SegregationHistory

•Television•Music•MediaReinforcement

•Society•One another •OurselvesEffect

HistorySlavery, Segregation

Slavery Here to serve the white man

& his family political and economic

relationship of hierarchy not prejudice

Justified by Christians› Africans were descendants of

Ham and were cursed by his father Noah to be servants

Light vs. Dark Present tied to history

› Perception of black people has been closely tied to their history

SegregationInferiority •Separate/equal (Jim Crow)

•Separate/not equal

Living conditions

•Whites: nice homes•Blacks: secluded ghettos

Educational •Whites: well built schools/books•Blacks: barley any books/disadvantage schools

These things led to the idea of blacks being less clean, less intelligent and overall inferior

ReinforcementTelevision/Media, Music

TelevisionWhat You Get

What You See

Vulgar Profanity› 89% Blacks› 5% Whites

Physically Violent› 56% Blacks› 11% Whites

Being Restrained› 55% Blacks› 6%Whites

Blacks seen in demeaning intellectual terms on TV

Mug shots are 4 times more likely to appear

Black on white crimes (over represented)

It’s impossible to forgetWhat we see everyday

MUSICWe’ve come to a point where to “act black” is to act in this manner. If you act otherwise you’re not “acting black”

Degrading, Classless, Bad Influences

Effects of This Music Sid Kirchheimer “Studied 522 black girls

between the ages of 14 and 18 from non-urban, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods

compared to those who never or rarely watched these videos› the girls who viewed these gangster videos for

at least 14 hours per week were far more likely to practice numerous destructive behaviors.

Over the course of the one-year study, they were:› Three times more likely to hit a teacher › Over 2.5 times more likely to get arrested › Twice as likely to have multiple sexual partners › 1.5 times more likely to get a sexually

transmitted disease, use drugs, or drink alcohol. “ (7)

An experiment byJames D. Johnson, Lee Anderson Jackson, Leslie Gatto showed.› Young men wanted to be matrialistic like the

ones on the vidoes (illegal or not) Teens that spend more time watching the sex

and violence depicted in the real life of gangster rap music videos are more likely to practice these behaviors in real life.

When it All Adds Up…What does it mean to be black?

Society looks down… A survey was given to people of

multiple races› Blacks were ranked worse or next to worse

in every characteristic given Laziest Highest preference of assisted living

(welfare) 57% of non blacks rated blacks less

intelligent then whites

Blacks Look Down

Stereotype Threat

Academic

(achievement gaps)

Death rates from

hypertension

related disorders

Motivation

Performed test

(intelligence

being measured=bad

performance)

“supposed

“to do poorly

Interracial Issues

Light vs.

Dark

Real vs.

Fake

1:17 -1:51 2:29-6:14

ConclusionBlack •Color of skin

•Not characteristic

Heritage •Out of touch with it•Make up our own culture (not using the best influences)

Role models •Obama or Gangsters (street life vs. bright future)•Pay tribute and pay attention to what’s more important

NO MORE EXCUSES FOR US…WE’RE NOT STUCKWE JUST HAVE TO WANT TO MOVE!!!!!