What are stereotypes? Why and how are they formed? As a group form a working definition of the word "stereotype". A stereotype is when someone makes judgement about people just because of who they are related to or where they live. Stereotypes can be formed due by high powers thinking lowly about a certain race or sex.
How were stereotypes used to justify slavery? To reassure slave owners? Slave owners believed that because you were black it was okay for you to serve a white man. It reassure slave owners that slavery was okay because a majority of the people believed in this stereotype
Why might slaves themselves have reinforced stereotypes? The slaves thought of all white people to be mean, and thought all whites were slave owners.
How have slave stereotypes influenced portrayals of African Americans today? It makes them look as if they aren't as high in society as the whites are just because they use to serve past slave owners.
Read Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" and Langston Hughes "Minstrel Man" What ideas do these poems seem to express? A stereotype'd group of people can hide behind a mask of happiness and everyone thinks they are okay but in reality they are dying on the inside.
What are some "masks" that oppressed groups use? What is the function of such a mask? How can masks be used as a form of resistance? Happiness, joy, the function of these masks is to hide the hurt that an oppressed group feels from being stereotyped. Masks can be used as a form of resistance by not allowing people to see the hurt then maybe people will stop stereotyping a particular group.
What are stereotypes? Why and how are they formed? As a group form a working definition of the word "stereotype".
A stereotype is when someone makes judgement about people just because of who they are related to or where they live. Stereotypes can be formed due by high powers thinking lowly about a certain race or sex.
How were stereotypes used to justify slavery? To reassure slave owners?
Slave owners believed that because you were black it was okay for you to serve a white man. It reassure slave owners that slavery was okay because a majority of the people believed in this stereotype
Why might slaves themselves have reinforced stereotypes?
The slaves thought of all white people to be mean, and thought all whites were slave owners.
How have slave stereotypes influenced portrayals of African Americans today?
It makes them look as if they aren't as high in society as the whites are just because they use to serve past slave owners.
Read Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" and Langston Hughes "Minstrel Man"
What ideas do these poems seem to express?
A stereotype'd group of people can hide behind a mask of happiness and everyone thinks they are okay but in reality they are dying on the inside.
What are some "masks" that oppressed groups use? What is the function of such a mask? How can masks be used as a form of resistance?
Happiness, joy, the function of these masks is to hide the hurt that an oppressed group feels from being stereotyped. Masks can be used as a form of resistance by not allowing people to see the hurt then maybe people will stop stereotyping a particular group.