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    Black Males

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    Jaisha Andrews Mrs. Considine English 101‚ Section 506 7 August 2012 The Negative Effects of Being a Black Male in a “Post-Racial” Society The University of Tennessee has 28‚000 students‚ in which 7.59% of that total is African Americans. Of that 7.59% of African Americans‚ only 998.8 of them are African American males. Once these black males graduate‚ they will begin to search for the desired career that they have academically and socially prepared for at the University of Tennessee. Every

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    April Law GUS 1177 Professor Gholson 2/26/12 The article called Black Brothers Inc.‚ written by Sean Patrick Griffin tells an interesting story about the Black Mafia. These individuals were excellent businessmen and working men that participated in obtaining drug dealers‚ maintaining crap games‚ and holding regular meetings at many different locations‚ but they were also coldblooded people who would kill anyone who might testify against them in court. This is how they gained power in the Philadelphia

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    Bamboozled

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    Bamboozled Commentary When a person thinks about Bamboozled‚ many don’t have a meaning for it or just guess what it might mean. The definition of Bamboozled means fool or cheat. Now it’s confusing to get a sense of concept when think of what the movie Bamboozled is going to be about. The movie is base of a character name Pierre Delacroix that works in a TV network and hires two individual men to start in a show that reflects how African Americans “are.” Delacroix wanted to bamboozle the audience

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    Male Body Image

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    Body image dissatisfaction is a concept that refers to a person’s negative perception of his or her own physical appearance. The negative view of the body have generally been seen as a female problem but body dissatisfaction is also very much tied to the male body image as well. The media strongly influences the way males in society perceive their own bodies by promoting the ideal male body image.Although I recognize that my own body is a product of my inability to

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    How Not to Be Bamboozled

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    Propaganda: How Not To Be Bamboozled By Donna Woolfolk Cross Propaganda. If an opinion poll were taken tomorrow‚ we can be sure that nearly everyone would be against it because it sounds so bad. When we say‚ “Oh‚ that’s just propaganda‚” it means‚ to most people‚ “That’s a pack of lies.” But really‚ propaganda is simply a means of persuasion and so it can be put to work for good causes as well as bad—to persuade people to give to charity‚ for example‚ or to love their neighbors‚ or to stop polluting

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    Gender Representation: Males in the Media: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Advertisements‚ such as TV commercials influence our views of gender roles in a variety of ways. A Pepsi commercial aired during the 2009 Super Bowl (American Football League) displays mostly middle aged Blue Collar American males as strong physically and emotionally‚ klutzy‚ accident prone‚ and have a “Do It Yourself!” attitude‚ all as a product promotion strategy. Pepsi highlights

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    Summary of Black Men and Public Space Staples Brent in “Black Men and Public Space” described the difficulties that a young black male may encounter during his ordinary life. It is explained that‚ even if you are a well-educated citizen‚ but you are a black man—more than six feet height with a not shaved face—you could face unfair prejudice and judgment all the time in street. At the very beginning of the article Brent start with “My first victim was a woman—white‚ well-dressed‚ probably in her

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    stereotype of blacks‚ and in particular black males. The current stereotype of a black male is a person that is poor and is also a criminal. This stereotype casts a very negative light over the black community and leads to unfair treatment. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 1 in every 3 black males is expected to face some jail time. Black males now make up approximately 36% of the inmates incarcerated. Statistics like these are what have continued to keep the black male stereotype alive

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    com/article.aspx?ref=517242 “The Media has concentrated on the representation of black men and women. This has partly been because there is a strong African-American counter-culture which provides viable alternative role models and demands that they are represented. In recent years‚ the success of actors such as Denzel Washington‚ Whoopi Goldberg‚ Laurence Fishburne and Morgan Freeman in a diversity of roles has meant that black characters in movies and on TV are no longer ’stock’ types. Some of

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    Bamboozled- the Movie

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    Bamboozled Bamboozled‚ a controversial movie produced by Spike Lee‚ is based on the relationships that forms between people of racially contrasting perspectives. Throughout Bamboozled the audience sees the struggle between Dunwitty‚ the white boss‚ and Pierre Delacroix‚ the black scriptwriter. Dunwitty exemplifies white power and although he believes it to be alright to casually throw the word "nigger" around in a conversation‚ he doesn’t truly appreciate or respect the black race. Lott and

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