I finished my short story which is an independent work of mine. I will put the links in the description now. The other story I was planning to do is cancel. I decide to cancel my story because I got bored of it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jF5d4Oq1r4RDnLwhmjSxGKyb2vpA51-WIChsO5M9BA/edit
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My name is Nathaniel Howard and I will do a proposal on my final project. I am going to do a final project proposal on African Americans in Popular Culture. The reason I am doing this because I am working on a book that will have African Americans as superheroes in it. I decide to relate my project to the working of my manuscript. The project will have two podcast relating to my project, creative writing collection talking about the topics of the African Americans on Popular Culture, two twitter threads and three blogs.
I read three sources that I will use on my final project. The sources are Africa in the American Imagination : Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture, Pigtails, Ponytails, and Getting Tail: The Infantilization and Hyper-Sexualization of African American Females in Popular Culture , and “You Ain’t No Denzel”: African American Men’s Use of Popular Culture to Narrate and Understand Marriage and Romantic Relationships. The reason i will use these sources because it connects to my final project ideas and it connects to my manuscript.
My manuscript is also a woman by the named of Tina Mcrowe, a woman with special abilities trying to help her community. from crime, but her husband, Alex with special abilities is trying to help the community, but in a dangerous way. The story focuses on the issue of African Americans: Black on Black Crime, gang violence, white supremacy, police brutality , and other issues. Tina is trying to fix her community. The reasons the manuscript connects to the source because it talks about popular culture and African Americans and how they have been seen in media. I will argue in the blogs if the deception of African Americans have been positive or negative. It will be the major focus of my paper. Also, my book will explore why African Americans should work together instead of replying on the white men for anything.
The article titled “You Ain’t No Denzel”: African American Men’s Use of Popular Culture to Narrate and Understand Marriage and Romantic Relationships is talking about African Americans men using popular culture like media to narrate relationship and marriage. The article explained how the media often depicts African American males in a negative light. I believe the article is good for my argument in the paper that will be developed throughout the semester. “An examination of the transcripts revealed that 18 of the 33 (54 %) men participating in our study made a total of 51 references to the media and popular culture in their discussions of their romantic relationships and marriages” (Perry, Smith, and Brooms 489).
The article titled Pigtails, Ponytails, and Getting Tail: The Infantilization and Hyper-Sexualization of African American Females in Popular Culture is talking about how Popular Culture is stereotyping black women, by oversexualizing them. The article explained how it is affecting black women. I believe the article is good for my argument because it gives the negative side of my paper. It creates possible answer. “Historically, the pairing of a black male brute or pimp figure and the Jezebel is familiar in stereotypical representations of black sexuality”(Mullins 747).
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The article titled Africa in the American Imagination : Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture is talking about how Popular Culture loves to fantasize African Americans and Africa. The main argument of the paper is the fact American loves to copy the customs of Africans and Africa and create stereotypes. I would love to use this source because it fits my paper. The article claims the Americans are sterotyping Africans and non white people by oversexaulizing sport wear( Magee 30).
This is my link to the podcast I will do my project on. The project will be work on my November 3, 2019. I will finish the Chapter 1 by November 4.
Work Cited/ References
Magee, Carol L. Africa in the American Imagination Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture . Jackson [Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. Print.
Perry, Armon, Smith, Siobhan, and Brooms, Derrick. “You Ain’t No Denzel”: African American Men’s Use of Popular Culture to Narrate and Understand Marriage and Romantic Relationships. Vol. 18. Boston: Springer US, 2014. Web.
Dagbovie‐Mullins, Sika A. Pigtails, Ponytails, and Getting Tail: The Infantilization and Hyper‐Sexualization of African American Females in Popular Culture. Vol. 46. N.p., 2013. Web.
Notes
There will be more sources that I will use in the final paper. These are only temporary.
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