Social Expectations by Kayla Bain https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a By Kayla Bain and Mya Bohman en-us 2021-04-09 14:43:03 UTC 2023-04-06 17:45:30 UTC hello@padlet.com baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425517805 “‘It is a southern custom that all men must take off their hats when they enter an elevator,’ Wright explained. ‘And especially did this apply to us blacks with rigid force’” (Wright qtd. in Ritterhouse 51).

]]> 2021-04-16 14:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425517805 The Jim Crow South baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425538721 “These codes required blacks to demonstrate their subordination and supposedly natural inferiority, while whites demonstrate white supremacy” (Ritterhouse 52)
The idea of white supremacy and black inferiority became the basis of all social etiquette for southern African Americans during the 1960’s 
]]> 2021-04-16 14:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425538721 baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425560748 2021-04-16 14:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425560748 baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425561660 2021-04-16 14:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425561660 baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425562266 2021-04-16 14:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425562266 Mentality of White Men baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425621155  Whites are superior to all Blacks in:
  • Intelligence 
  • Education 
  • Stature
  • Morality
  • Civil behavior
  • Financial Status

]]> 2021-04-16 14:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425621155 The Secret Life of Bees Example baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425762060 “For a second they stared at the juice (spit), dribbled like car oil across their shoes. They blinked, trying to make it register” (Kidd 32). 
Rosaleen, on her way to register to vote right after president Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, encountered a group of white men. They began harassing her verbally and Rosaleen is very strong willed and refuses to put up with it so she pours her spit across their shoes.

“When they looked up, I watched their faces go from surprise to anger, then outright fury. They lunged at her, and everything started to spin” (Kidd 32).
This was an example of Rosaleen not following “proper” social etiquette, therefore the white men retaliate using violence, and in the end they don’t get any punishment for their actions.
]]> 2021-04-16 14:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425762060 baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425786340 This source offers wonderful lists of black expectations and laws in the south during the 1960’s]]> 2021-04-16 15:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425786340 Woman’s Actions Dictates Her Husband’s Social Stature baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425812371
  • Does she dress nicely?
  • Is she well-groomed?
  • How does she comply to men in her life?
  • Does she care for children?
  • Is she a good homemaker?
    • ]]>     2021-04-16 15:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1425812371     Women’s Failure to Comply bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445591808 Back in the mid 1900’s when a woman failed to comply to the demands of a man, they would often be arrested or killed; especially when a colored woman failed to listen to a white man. 

    The most famously known noncompliance between a colored woman and white male would be Rosa Parks on the bus in 1955. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. This led to her arrest for “violation of the city’s racial segregation laws,” which led to Parks being jailed. This created a boycott of public transportation for over a year and was a spark for the civil rights movement.
    “The mother of the civil rights movement”  

    This is a parallel to when Rosaleen was confronted by racist white men on her way to vote in Independence Day.
     “Rosaleen lifted her snuff jug, which was filled with black spit, and calmly poured it across the top of the men’s shoes” (Kidd 32).
     This led to the men physically assaulting her and calling the police. This scene ended with Rosaleen in jail from “assaulting” the white men. 
    ]]>     2021-04-22 04:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445591808     Financial Disparities in White vs. Colored Men bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445670518 For many decades it is reported that white men make significantly more money than white men. This graph shows the racial gap in financial status from the mid 1900’s to more recent years. Due to this gap, white men were considered “superior” to black men.

    ]]>     2021-04-22 05:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445670518     Common Etiquette of Children in the South bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445698338
  • Help around the house 
  • Help with father’s work/business 
  • Go to school (mainly white children)
  • Be seen and not heard
    • ]]>     2021-04-22 05:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445698338     Positives bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445802897
  • Creates a sense of structure in society.
  • Allows for everyone to be held to a similar degree (if everyone had the same expectations- no concern for gender or race). 
    • ]]>     2021-04-22 06:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445802897     Negatives bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445803178 1. Creates social classes. 
    2. Polarizes communities by differences.
    3. Creates a mold for citizens to fit into, which equals a lack of individuality.
    4. The society immediately creates an unrealistic pressure unto its society. 
    5. Creates lack of ambition and motivation in “lower” classes ]]>     2021-04-22 06:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445803178     bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445914262 2021-04-22 06:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445914262 Education Levels in Whites vs. Colored bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445916877 The disparity in education between black and white children is great, their facilities and duration of education show the racial differences.

    I’m The Secret Life of Bees, the disparity in education is seen between Zach and Lily, even though attending school was apart of their daily lives. In a conversation between Zach and Lily, they talk about their shortcomings and how it may impact their future, Zach says: 
    “I don’t know if I’ll have much of a future either,” while Lily responds with “Why not? You’re not an orphan. No, he said. I’m a negro” (Kidd 120).
     After Lily says how now that she’s run away from home she cannot become an English teacher, Zach confesses he most likely will never become a lawyer because he is colored. 
    ]]>     2021-04-22 06:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445916877     Colored Men’s Education bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445938253 Most colored men in this time period worked menial, low-level jobs for little pay as they had a limited education. Most colored men, if they were allowed to finish high school never went on to university like white men did, so they never could fulfill their dream job. 
    In The Secret Life of Bees Zach had aspirations to be a lawyer, but due to his race, that goal seemed unattainable. This was very common for black men during this time period. ]]>     2021-04-22 06:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445938253     Zach and Lily bohmam0536 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445942270 In the mid 1900’s there were very strict rules on interracial relationships, so when Zach and Lily were spotted together at the movie theater, he was immediately arrested.
    “I heard Zach’s name. I heard Mr. Forrest say the word “jail.” I guessed that Zach had called him with his one phone call, and here he was, breaking the news“ (Kidd 180). 

    This novel is set in 1964, so at the time interracial marriage was illegal, and interracial relationships were treated very similarly. Loving vs. Virginia in 1967 was the court case that legalized interracial marriage in the United States. 
    ]]>     2021-04-22 06:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1445942270     Colored Males and White Females - Dif. Race baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446643688
  • Absolutely no intersexual relations between a person of color and a white person
    • Creates a hybrid monster that could take over the U.S.
  • A colored man could not even offer his hand (to shake) to a women for the risk of being accused of rape.
  • Could not offer a light of a cigarette - implies intimacy.
  • Never comment upon the appearance of a white female. 
    • ]]>     2021-04-22 11:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446643688     baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446674522 2021-04-22 11:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446674522 White and Colored Male Relationships baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446685122
  • Never claim a white person is lying
  • Never direct a curse toward a white person
  • Never demonstrate superior knowledge to a white person
  • Blacks introduced to whites
    • ]]>     2021-04-22 11:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446685122     baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446712370 2021-04-22 11:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446712370 baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446859072 2021-04-22 12:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446859072 baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446860206 2021-04-22 12:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446860206 1960’s Southern Belle baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446871314 This picture really highlights how proper and well groomed women were expected to be in the south. Appearance was very heavily stressed throughout southern society in the 1960’s]]> 2021-04-22 12:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1446871314 baink0443 https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1447556731 2021-04-22 14:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/baink0443/647z2pz2aqif902a/wish/1447556731