Today in Freshman Seminar (our last lecture WAHOO!) Dana Williams spoke to us about the future of the class. With all honesty this was the most boring lecture out of the entire Freshman Seminar course because all she talked about were the projects we were going to do and how we should go about doing them.
My group in Freshman Seminar is Freshman Inception. We choose this name because:
1. Inception (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) was by far the BEST MOVIE of 2010.
2. Inception is a synonym for ‘beginning’ or ‘origin’
When choosing the name we were thinking about what we were going to learn throughout the course and after the first lecture we knew it would be about our roots. In relation to today’s lecture, my group chose our topic for our project. Our question is: How to Eurocentric ideals affect the African American community? With this question there is a focus on beauty.
We have all watch TV before and have seen commercials. Most advertisements involve a skinny, white woman: blonde hair, blue eyes. With the our society’s obsession with the media a notion develops over time that this is a synomonous image of what is and should be ‘beautiful.’ In order to achieve this ‘look’ people sell various items to the African American community. Examples of these products would be: perm, weave, contact, and skin bleachers. My group is going to go through the psychology of these images and how black people, women in particular, are affected.
Natalie Nicole Hampton
Nursing Major/ Spanish Minor
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