Race and Gender
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Gendered Experiences of Racism
EDU 639
Elsie J. Phillips
Instructor: Sue Adragna
August 26, 2013

Race and Gender
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The video, “A Girl Like Me” examines how young African Americans girls view their self with beauty and the way they look to others young girls. African Americans females view beauty as the color tone of their skin, along with the way their hair appears to others around them in society. They see their self as being different with the color tone of their skin and the fact that their hair is “nappy”. The video also show the fact of what color doll they would pick out to play with and what doll was the “ugly” one. Race is made from the ancestors of one and the defining of skin color. Most African Americans can not trace their ancestors back to a certain part of African continent. The surprising thing of the video is not what one would think that a young African American would prefer their skin color to be in life. “ Any conduct based on a distinction made on grounds of natural or social categories, which have no relation either to individual capacities or merits, or to the concrete behavior of the individual person” ( Nieto, Bode, p. 63). The young African Americans girls talk about bleaching their bodies to be lighter in color because it is more beautiful to be light-skin than dark skin. The young girls were also asked to pick out the good doll from the bad doll and most picked the white doll instead of picking the doll more like their own color. Young African Americans want to look lighter in skin tone than to be dark –skinned. The attitude is that white girls have better and prettier hair than the African Americans. The African American females have what they call “nappy hair” and they need to “straighten their hair out” so it can look nice to others around them. The problem with this is that white girls also