So I'm taking a class called African American families. It basically talks about the history of how the African American family dynamic came to be and how society today affects it. We watched a really powerful film this past week about the images that have progressed throughout the centuries portraying African Americans. It was surprising to see how far from the truth the images were yet people who didn't know otherwise took these images as the only truth they knew about African Americans. With the change in politics was the change in images. One such example was the logo for the Aunt Jemima Pancake mix.



after watching the film it seemed that there was a correlation between media images of African Americans and Asian Americans. I remember when I took Asian American studies we learned about the different portrayals of Asian Americans and for the most part they were equally as false as the images of African Americans. Like how women were depicted as sexual beings and males, effeminate.

When we watch movies today, the previews before the movie often deal with the same genre as the one that you're about to watch. Yesterday when I was watching the previews to Last Holiday I noticed that a lot of the movies showed a lot of the stereotypes that we have today of African Americans. Everyone laughs and perhaps they're true but were they always true or has society fueled a particular image of the ethnic group that they're now living by because what we see is the only truth we know?

I thought it was interesting how my professor said that like the changing logos of Aunt Jemima due to changes in politics, racism has also evolved from how it once was but is still present today.