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This video takes an in depth look at blackface and how it came to be as well as what it served to do, which was entertain. Not many people in this day and age are entertained by blackface anymore, however every now and then a story tends to pop up about some celebrity ignorantly dressing up as a black athlete or artist, so clearly blackface has had lasting effects on society. An interesting fact I learned in this video was that in order for a black performer to be successful, they had to apply blackface makeup to themselves and play into the white peoples view of their race. This was done so that white people could feel more comfortable while watching the performances. This relates to Janie´s journey because she experiences a big social separation with all the white people she encounters in the novel. All of the places she lives in all three of her marriages are populated by black people only. White people are separating themselves from black people in the novel just as they separate themselves from black people when watching them perform in blackface.

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form

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Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

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Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

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This article shows many statistics on how groups of African American people state they have been harassed or discriminated against. Some data I found interesting was that African Americans who make seventy five thousand dollars a year or more got discriminated against more than those who made twenty five thousand or even less. This is a shame because it shows that the more successful an African American gets, the more racial tension he or she will run into. This relates to Janie´s story because in the end when she unfortunately has to mercy kill Tea Cake, she is free to start a life and try and find success. However, this article shows that the harder Janie try´s to make something of herself, the more obstacles she will face due to the environment around her being plagued by systemic racism.

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The poll asked a wide range of questions about where Americans experience discrimination - from the workplace to the doctor's office - and people's perception of it. The groups polled include whites, blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and LGBTQ adults.

White Americans are among those who feel their group is discriminated against, with 55 percent saying discrimination exists against whites in the U.S. today.

These results are part of a large national statistically representative survey of 3,453 adults from Jan. 26 to Apr. 9.

We will be releasing the full results of the poll over the next several weeks, starting Tuesday with results from the survey of African-Americans. We will highlight and analyze the particular acts of discrimination that each group experiences.

The African-American results, in 802 adults, provide insight into the historically high levels of discrimination blacks have faced since arriving in America. These experiences happen across a broad range of situations: interacting with police; applying for jobs or seeking promotions; trying to rent an apartment or buy a home; or going to a doctor or health clinic.

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The findings on African-Americans have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.

The perceptions of discrimination are not primarily based in actions by institutions, as some might expect. "Most African-Americans believe that discrimination is due to the attitudes of individuals that they interact with," says Robert Blendon, the poll's director and professor of policy and political analysis at the Harvard Chan School. "A smaller share believes it's actually government or institutional policies."

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Fear of discrimination, possibly triggered by past encounters, plays out in different ways. We found that this fear significantly influences people's decisions whether to seek medical care, to call the police when in need, and even whether to drive or attend social events. Nearly one-third (32 percent) of African-Americans polled said they have personally experienced racial discrimination when going to the doctor or a health clinic, with 22 percent avoiding care out of fear of discrimination.

"If someone is avoiding seeking medical care out of fear of discrimination, they're at risk of going undiagnosed for serious conditions," says Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We know that repeated stress from discrimination and racism can actually make some of those conditions more likely in the first place and shorten lives."

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And repeated stress comes from many kinds of discrimination and the fear it engenders. Numerous studies have shown that African-Americans are more likely to be stopped by police compared with other racial groups. In the poll, 60 percent of people told us that they or a family member have been unfairly stopped or mistreated by police because they are black.

That has consequences for them personally and across society - 31 percent of poll respondents say fear of discrimination has led them to avoid calling the police when in need. And 61 percent say police are more likely to use force on a person who is African-American than on a white person in the same situation.

Where people live can make a big difference, too. Our survey found that 64 percent of blacks live in non-majority-black areas. For these people, perceptions of local discrimination, opportunity, police and government and community environment were generally better when compared with majority-black areas, sometimes by wide margins.

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Our poll found substantial numbers of African-Americans who say they have been slurred or have been the target of insensitive or offensive comments or negative assumptions. A story later in our series will explore the split by income and gender in the chart below.

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Persistently higher premature death rates in blacks compared with whites was one of the issues that inspired this poll and series. The most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that gap at 16 percent, even though it has narrowed since 1999, when death rates for blacks from all causes were 33 percent higher than whites.

Many factors play into the gap, including a considerable drop in crime rates involving African-Americans over that period and improved access to medical care for many people. What we're trying to explore with our "You, Me and Them" series and poll is how the stress-inducing experiences of discrimination in everyday life affect health.

"Over 200 black people die prematurely every single day in America, in part because of racism in society," says David Williams, a professor of public health at the Harvard Chan School who has pioneered work in the field of racial disparities in health care. "This poll helps us see where we need to take action to address the problem."

The poll was conducted in the first quarter of 2017. A final report discussing major highlights from the series will be released in December.

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Poll: Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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This piece of writing tells the story of a white couple named Anne and Michael and their relationship with their black servants Luther and Mattie. Anne is a painter and Michael composes music, and they are both obsessed with African American culture, however they are not very respectful about their unhealthy infatuation. Luther and Mattie end up leaving their home after an altercation with Michael´s mother, but their leaving can also be credited with being constantly asked to sing or pose for their employers. The last painting Anne was working on was a piece called slave on the block, in which Luther was asked to pose without clothing on top of an auction block, however he left before the piece could be finished. This story connects to ¨Their Eyes Were Watching God ¨
because this was how African Americans were treated in the time period of the novel. America was at a point where it was no longer lawful to discriminate blatantly, however people still did, just in a different way. Anne and Michael described Luther by saying he looked very jungle like, but then were confused on why he and Mattie left. This piece is representative of the white class being blind to their own ignorance.

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This poem is from a house slave´s perspective, one who most likely witnesses more pain than he or she endures. The poet speaks of the first and second horns in the morning, the sounds of backs being whipped, and the sound of their sisters voice. To drive the point of this never ending hell home, the poet states in the end of the poem that all of this is happening before daylight, and there are many more hours to go before any sort of rest. This relates directly to Janie because although she may have not been a slave, she sure felt like one in the first two relationships she had. With Logan, she was always in the house cooking him food and cleaning up, and he even told her that her place was in the house, which is why she eventually left him for Joe, who was just a little better but not by much. Joe kept Janie from accomplishing anything by herself, and made her take pride in his accomplishments, when really all she wanted was to be an independent woman. She represents a house slave because she does not have the power to go out and do things for herself unless her husband says it is okay or comes along with her, which is not what a successful or healthy relationship looks like.

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This week's poem is by Rita Dove. The House SlaveThe first horn lifts its arm over the dew-lit grassand in the slave quarters there is a rustling-children are bundled into aprons, cornbre...

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This piece defines white privilege as an inevitable power accumulated over time, by white people, and then passed down from generation to generation. It states that recognizing you are benefiting from white privilege is not racist, and white people should accept it exists and use their privilege for the good of all people. An example given is to not let peers get away with saying  things that are problematic, and instead engage them in a conversation about race, hoping to change their mindset. This piece relates to ¨Their Eyes Were Watching God¨ because Janie was living in a time where white privilege was much more prominent than it is today. Janie and her third husband Tea Cake are directly affected by white privilege in this novel many times, one of these instances being when Tea Cake was harassed into cleaning up the dead bodies from the storm by white men. Another instance would be how when Janie and her second husband Joe moved into a new town, they were expecting a lively scene but instead were greeted with an extremely bland and drab place. It was not until later in the book that Joe would put the towns first street light up, when in a white town at this time I don´t think it would be too far off to assume streetlamps and maybe even power were readily accessible.

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