Films help suggest Black people and their culture in past eras. “Because Black women still live within the barriers that mainstream American society organizes through decisions made on the basis of skin color, language, financial background, and educational preparations, it is sometimes difficult to construct the social circumstances within which a Black female character is depicted in a movie (Dowdy 164). As you all know, the media is and has always been the most influential of all sources of knowledge. They have influenced for years and years. Although this is a positive thing, the negative to this situation is that the media has been evoking the same images since the beginning. These images have not totally been representative of each and everything that there is to represent. Why does most film covers or cases suggest to the consumer that the movie that they are about to watch is about a Black woman that is low-literate (Dowdy 174)? This is a result of the images that have been embedded in the mindsets of both White and Black people by means of the media. Even though there are hard-working, intelligent, and talented women in the world, there is a failure to represent them, because of this continuous cycle.
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