African American

Stereotypes

By: Zakiya Hoots

Why I Chose This

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•Media

Reinforcement

•Society•One another •Ourselves

Effect

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

Segregation

Inferiority •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

Television

What 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.

The Effects Of It AllWhat does it mean to be black?