the oppressive “strong black woman” (2016: n.p.) stereotype. Black Girl Magic could also sound overly optimistic, Chavers cautioned, in a world in which black girls and women experience high rates of violence. Responding to Chavers’s arguments, Ashley
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young people are using social media as an accessible, hands-on method of activism. Through storytelling, they share their experiences and give them power. The stereotype that our generation is apathetic is proven wrong; we care, we are affected by what
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gender roles. Gender Roles Overall, a rather stereotyped gender identity is shown in NV English and PEP English . For example, words like “beautiful” and “pretty” are often used to describe females. When the males and females appear as husband and wife
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Indigenous girls and girlhood. We wanted to hear about how Indigenous girls are resisting stereotypes, thriving, taking a stand in their communities, and participating in social, communal, and/or political action. There were inevitable challenges. In many
Teaching National Identity and Alterity
Nineteenth Century American Primary School Geography Textbooks
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introduced a series of racial, cultural, political, social, and religious stereotypes that elevated Western civilization (and hence, the American nation) to the highest degree of exceptionalism while depicting other nations and countries as “different” and
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devastating periods in twentieth-century gay and transsexual history, and Dallas Buyers Club serves as a powerful reminder of the historical and social backgrounds against which mainstream films continue the hegemonic stereotyping of narratives and
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stereotypically western gender roles with girls being feminine, emotional, and what is known as soft, and boys being masculine, aggressive, and tough, and that they were policing one another’s performance of these roles. Although both sexes were engaged in this
Sarah Hill
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Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda, Instagram Reproductions, and Viral Memetic Violence
Aria S. Halliday
the most potent viral images on social media platforms. Constructed as hilarious, absurd, or disgusting, viral images of Black women and girls recirculate stereotypical characteristics (like loud, either asexual or hypersexual, intimidating, and
Hanna Retallack
’ sexuality has widely critiqued social assumptions that girls of color and girls in poverty (see Tolman 2009 ) are assumed to be hyper- or over-sexual, while black and Latina girls in particular must counteract stereotypes that present them as “vixens or ho