Single Story example (Assignment #2)

Context that will help:

This entire class is rooted in this simple notion that African Americans, Women, and other underrepresented people in the media are often relegated to a “Single Story” narrative that leaves them misunderstood, dis-empowered, and not fully seen as three-dimensional people. This in turn robs all people of their humanity via their inability to see someone else as a full human being.

We see this arise in conversations about immigration, the Muslim ban, police violence, #metoo, DEI, Critical Race Theory and many others that involve race, gender, and class.

While this class may be mostly focused on African Americans, the call is to expand your humanity and see yourself when you see African Americans and delve deep into your understanding of our shared humanity. In some ways, we have all experienced similar things to varying degrees.

Assignment:

1- Use what you also learned from the films these last two weeks and the “Single Story” TED talk to describe what “Single Story” or Stereotypical assumptions you may have had about African Americans/Africans prior to what you learned this week. If you are African American or African, what “Single Story” do/did you have about Africans or African Americans?

*2-page minimum/No title page needed

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIZDtqWX6Fk&t=33s

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyXRb3YTDUU

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtiJH3EOHo

-https://www.manhoodraceculture.com/video/ethnic-notions-2/

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8&t=53s

-https://youtu.be/ETnIsBnNRr0

-https://youtu.be/L4EjZpIF71Y

-https://youtu.be/CwaP1kyAqqo

-https://youtu.be/Fp3NXIiKTLQ

-https://youtu.be/7JEAMzJDyZs

-https://youtu.be/K-FG2oWl-2k