African American Women In The Film Hidden Figures

In the movie Hidden Figures, African American women are portrayed as uneducated by white men. In order to find the calculations to launch the spaceflight program, it required a fair amount of time and effort to put in. The main character Katherine G. Johnson put in her all and found the perfect solution to the calculations even after she was not wanted in the team filled by white men just because she was an African American woman who they assumed she was empty headed. One of the reasons these men discriminated against Katherine was that they were mostly afraid for their jobs and success in the company but most importantly they feared that a woman who appeared smarter than all of them would make them be the weak and uneducated ones. Men typically care
White men are more likely to be working in major companies than black women because there is still issues with women's rights to this day. In the film, three woman tried to prove their worth to the spaceflight program but discriminatory policies, such as professionalism and racism, kept getting in their way. Throughout all the obstacles these women went through, they still proved all the men wrong about their thoughts by working diligently on all the everything given to them whether it was effortless or complex. The white men believed that African Americans didn't have the standard education and training for the special skills to work with them to solve the complex equation to launch the space flight. The end result of that was the African American women solved the equation while the white men did not. In the "Theories and Constructs of Race," Holtzman and Sharpe explain how white Americans still consider all blacks as negatives and are not "merely different but also deficient"(605). everyone is capable of working anywhere whether they are black, white , a woman ,or a male and no one should be decimated against