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The representation of African Americans in speech, writing, still or moving pictures has been a major concern in mainstream American culture and a component of media bias in the United States. [1] Such media representation is not always seen in a positive light and propagates controversial and misconstrued images of what African Americans ...
Low self-esteem that stems from teenage advertising can have detrimental effects on teenagers. Seventy-five percent of young women with low self-esteem report engaging in negative activities such as "cutting, bullying, smoking, or drinking when feeling bad about themselves". Teen promiscuity is another possible effect of low self-esteem. [20]
Characters termed "bad black girls," "black whores," and "black bitches" are archetypes of many blaxploitation films produced by the Hollywood establishment. [57] The term "black bitch" was use in an episode of the 2019 television show Total Control with the intent of reclaiming a racial slur, however the public was unhappy. Few were unfazed by ...
At the National Book Awards ceremony in November 2014, author Daniel Handler made a controversial remark after author Jacqueline Woodson was presented with an award for young people's literature. Woodson, who is Black, won the award for Brown Girl Dreaming. During the ceremony, Handler noted that Woodson is allergic to watermelon, a reference ...
Adolescence can be a "rough and bumpy time" for parents and teenagers, according to Dr. Lateefah Watford, a child and adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente in Atlanta.Teenagers ...
A mother in Louisiana is speaking out after a high school student shared a Christmas photo of her black son with a racist caption.
In the 1970s, when the boomers were our age, young workers had a 24 percent chance of falling below the poverty line. By the 1990s, that had risen to 37 percent. And the numbers only seem to be getting worse. From 1979 to 2014, the poverty rate among young workers with only a high school diploma more than tripled, to 22 percent.
[17] [18] The Mammy is represented as being very devoted to her white masters, or employers, often at the expense of her own life and family (Harris-Perry 72). K. Sue Jewell said that by presenting a smiling and happy representation of a black slave, whose only purpose and skills laid in domestic work, the Mammy made the slave trade seem more ...