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African American Stereotypes

African American Stereotypes. Why I Chose This. What and Why. To stereotype is to place a group of similar people under one category making them all the same. Automatic Implicit Stereotyping. The inclination to feel a certain way about someone because of a specific characteristic

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African American Stereotypes

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  1. African American Stereotypes

  2. Why I Chose This

  3. What and Why To stereotypeis to place a group of similar people under one category making them all the same.

  4. 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

  5. My Foundation

  6. History Slavery, Segregation

  7. 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

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

  9. Reinforcement Television/Media, Music

  10. Television It’s impossible to forget What we see everyday • 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)

  11. Music We’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

  12. The Effects Of It All What does it mean to be black?

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