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"African American women writers have used literacy tirelessly to work for social change." In the TED talk "Gender Roles in Society" they talk about the true extent of gender roles in society, much like this article. Writers are trying to inspire change. They are trying to crush the stereotypes that society has put on people and show who they really are. Like in Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Janie defy's the towns norms that they have set in and does what she wants on her own. Sometimes if you want to change the rules you must first defy them.

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In this TED talk she says that "women are expected to warm, kind, caring, and clean." In "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Hurston touches on this subject a bit when talking about Janie and her different marriages. When Janie is married sometimes she is not warm and caring sometimes she talks back and defy's the rules that society has put on women. This talk goes into detail about the true extent of gender roles in society, and much like in Huston's novel they go much deeper than we could imagine. Gender roles in modern America have not subsided and in a way have actually gotten worse.

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Gender Roles in Society | Ria Chinchankar | TEDxYouth@DAA

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Men impose standards on women by silencing their voices. In this video the women are perceived as the weaker sex and males, more dominant. Much like in "Their Eyes Were Watching God". The female sex is fundamentally defined by their relationship to men. This is something that happened while Hurston was writing her novel, and this is something that is still happening today in modern America. Like in the TED talk "Gender Roles in Society" this poem expresses the feeling that most women have because of societal norms that have been placed.

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"A Brown Girl's Guide to Gender" - Aranya Johar (Women's Day Special)

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How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

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How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

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I think in this article they deal a lot with societal norms, and assumptions. In this article a woman, talking about an African American Woman, says that she “performed better” and was “a lot more comfortable and confident.” The problem with this is that she assumed that she wouldn't perform well or that she wouldn't be confident. These are the assumptions we're making and the impressions that we're sharing. Like in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" the woman is underestimated and treated differently when they prove a person wrong.

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How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

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Interviews with ten professional women of color.

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The legacy of African American Woman Writers 

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The legacy of African American Woman Writers 

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The works of African American women "shatter the well-rehearsed stereotypes of Black women as social and political caricatures and invites the audience to see these whole people striving to become part of a whole nation." Hurston herself showed this through her book as well. In "Their Eyes Were Watching God" after Janie's husband dies she finally lets down her hair and becomes her own person. She shows that the stereotypes that society has put on people like her don't matter, and that she is to free to be herself. Like many writers Hurston has destroyed the stereotypes of society and has instead given you reality.

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She wrote about what she read, she wrote about white males with blue eyes who played in the snow, ate apples, and talked about how lovely it was that the sun came out. She wrote this despite the fact that she had never been outside of Nigeria. This shows how impressionable and vulnerable we are as children. It shows how just one story can alter one's thoughts about something. One story can create stereotypes. The consequence of a single story is that it emphasizes how we are different rather than similar. “Don’t buy into a single story”.

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Please [contact us](https://www.ted.com/contact) and let us know what happened.

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White Privilege Exists. It has in the past and it still does now. In the beginning of the article the author says that "Today, white privilege is often described through the lens of Peggy McIntosh’s groundbreaking essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” This relates to Chimamanda Adichie's talk about "The Danger of a Single Story". In that talk Adichie says "Don't buy into a single story" and that is exactly what we are doing if white privilege is only described through this one story. We need to explore the different possibilities and meaning of White Privilege.

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Recognizing white privilege begins with truly understanding the term itself.

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People are capable of so much more then they think but things like television are causing them to lose their creativity. This slam poetry holds so much emotion that it is expressing how he feels about this situation. he uses strong language and I think it helps to truly get his point across. He doesn't want children to be deprived of culture just because of what they are surrounded with. It is similar to "The Danger of a Single Story", because they both explain how children have impressionable minds. They both show how vulnerable we can be.

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Def Poetry Jam - Saul Williams (Coded Language)

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This poem showed the essence of an African American's gut feeling's. The feelings of alienation and pain up in the big house. The house slave is shivering in their bed "shivering in the early heat" , this shows that they are nervous. They don't want to become a slave in the fields. The house slave is laying in their bed and weeping because they are realizing that they have it much better in the house and aren't getting whipped before dawn. It's a very emotional poem that shows the hardships of being a slave.

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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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Blackface has been around since the 19th century and unfortunately is still around today. Some people don't realize that they are hurting others they just do it because they think that it is funny. When really it's very offensive to African Americans. However some people do it to make fun of others, which is not okay, and should be illegal. Some African American actors were even coerced into painting their own face black, which shows the power that people had over African Americans especially in the movie business.

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form