What message does our society give to African American children about their values and worth as human beings? Our society stigmatizes African Americans as troublemakers who cause crime and form gangs, which has led many African American children to place less value or personal worth on themselves. The main reason this stigma is imposed in our society is because movies and television shows have portrayed the African American community in a negative light. There was an article that Samuel Jackson wrote called "In Character," in which he explains that before he became Marvel's Agent of Shield, Nick Fury, and Jedi master, he suffered what many other African-American male actors suffered, i.e. play a criminal or be the first to be killed. She explains that Hollywood is racist and sexist because Hollywood bigwigs only care about the time it makes money. (Jackson 2013: 242-243) Movies are an opportunity for a child to be inspired and if an African American child sees other African Americans as criminals in a children's show or movie, then he will believe that all his value and worth is Nothing. But there will be a movie featuring a black superhero called Black Panther coming out soon, which will be released in 2018. Hopefully, this will give African-American children the awareness that not all superheroes are white and can pave the way for more movies starring them. black actors for children's films. I would also like to point out that before Princess Tina, the first black Disney princess, there were mostly white princesses who were marketed as beautiful women. In the documentary A Girl Like Me I noticed that during the tests on the color of the doll that a child would choose, a little girl who had chosen the white doll, then had to...... in the center of the paper......more specifically we are all Homo sapiens. Jefferson Fish wrote that the reason people appear differently around the world is because of evolution, “our species evolved in Africa from previous forms and eventually spread across the planet. Over time, geographically separated human populations came to differ in physical appearance.” (Fish 2011: 218) Race was designed to classify different cultural heritages or traits. Although many believe that breed defines the hereditary appearance for an offspring. There is no biological basis for classifying race because the traits people receive depend on variability. (Fish 2011:219) An example of this is red-haired or albino genetics which is widespread across all ethnicities. Therefore, race was created by our society to define a cultural group and has nothing to do with our biological system.
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