Therefore, what may to modern and Western eyes look like homosexual action may not have had any sexual intentions, let alone homosexual ones, in the context of the time.
This is very important to consider when examining paintings from long ago. We have to remember that society changes and develops as the world does. What we say now could have meant something completely different back then.
This diversity is not surprising, however, due to the subjectivity that accompanies the topics of art, sexuality, and even history.
Art is a way of expressing yourself or expressing anything really. That is what makes it so diverse. Everyone experiences emotions in different ways than other people and the way that it is portrayed in their art speaks for themselves.
“powerfully self-conscious creation of identity”
Identity has become even more powerful than it has ever been. Identity is all about who you are and now with society becoming more accepting of gay relationships (the legalization of gay marriage), identity is something that has caused us to become ourselves and go out of the norms to be who we really are.
that she had made up the most sensational part of her account.
This is absolutely awful. Women and men should never lie or fabricate the truth about something as serious as sexual harassment. The woman who accused Emmett Till of being verbally and physically aggressive with her, after whistling at her, cost him his life.
She added that she felt the painting was a means of “not letting Till’s death be forgotten, as Mamie, his mother so wanted.”
This is what Dana Schutz wanted to do. She made her painting based on the fact that she is also a mother and could not bear to lose a child, especially the way that Emmett Till's mother did. It is important that people who view this painting, regardless of their race, understand the message that Dana Schutz wanted to send, not the message that other people are protesting for.
“I feel like she doesn’t have the privilege to speak for black people as a whole or for Emmett Till’s family,”
Mr. Bright is assuming that Dana Schutz is using her painting to speak for black people. From this article, I have not read anything that indicates the artist trying to speak for black people. She painted someone who was brutally killed, which was definitely a controversial move, but she had no evil motive.
The sanctions In the Black and white communities against Black women thinkers is comparatively much higher than for white women, particularly ones from the educated middle and upper classes.
Women who are intelligent and speak their minds have been ridiculed by men because their courage to speak and to explore is a way for them to bent and reshape gender roles and norms. Women of color are demeaned even further due not only to misogyny, but also racism. White men put down white women's intelligence, but white women who are discouraged by the advancement of colored women who have their accomplishments and successes noticed also tend to put down women of color, AS WELL AS white men, and even colored men who are not happy with colored women showing off their intelligence. This is yet another instance of race and gender norms clashing.
For example, we were told in the same breath to be quiet both for the sake of being "ladylike" and to make us less objectionable in the eyes of white people. As we grew older we became aware of the threat of physical and sexual abuse by men. However, we had no way of conceptualizing what was so apparent to us, what we knew was really happening.
This is where gender roles, sexuality, and race all intersect. All girls at one point or another are told to be ladylike, and to be quiet. All women at one point or another face sexual harassment or feel uncomfortable in the presence of a certain male or group of men. However, women of color face even more of a hurdle because white men have treated women of color as less than, and have objectified them even more than they have white women. This puts women of color at a greater risk than white women.
Before looking at the recent development of Black feminism we would like to affirm that we find our origins in the historical reality of Afro-American women's continuous life-and-death struggle for survival and liberation.
Women in America have always faced oppression for centuries, especially women of color. Black feminism is a distinct subtext or subculture of feminism because they have constantly fought for survival, and continue to face oppression in modern times, whereas white feminists got their right to vote, and are fighting for their right to choose.
Most disconcertingly, hate crimes have increased 20% in the wake of the 2016 election.
Once Trump won, his base and other right-wing radicals feel as though their views should be expressed more-so than they have been in the last few decades. With the rise of white supremacy and isolationism in the United States, along with the rise of black and brown people in the United States, leads to a fork in the road. Either society could be fighting back against the systematic oppression because there is strength in numbers and the white supremacists can be shunned from society as they were previously; or we could have a clash and many more hate crimes. We have chosen the latter.
Tellingly, a 2012 study showed that more than half of white Americans believe that “whites have replaced blacks as the ‘primary victims of discrimination’.”
More than half of white Americans believe that they are now the primary victims of discrimination because they are not used to hearing and seeing black and brown voices be acknowledged. However, their fears are not valid because there is a pattern of systematic racism towards people of color.
“There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
This goes back to my other comment about there being many races in this country. There might be a dominant race, but there are still many others that deserve the same equal treatment and not exclusion.
At roughly the same time, the idea of universal human rights proliferated, advancing the dignity of every individual as the foundation of a just international order.
The United States of America is a country with many different races and ethnicities. We should all be able to work and communicate with one another without the discrimination. Some students come to America for a better education and then are discriminated by Americans and that's not fair, nor equal.