https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3 en-us 2018-12-10 18:02:59 UTC 2018-12-21 18:07:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png katherine_spinney https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/314409813 I do not think we have moved forward as a society about race since the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. I feel this way because in the Blackface: A Cultural History of A Racist Art Form video they were talking about people with white skin mocking people with black skin. They would use "Black Grease Paint" to cover there face and make there skin black, they would only leave a circle of white skin around there mouths. 
Another reason I feel this way is because people of all ages and of both genders were putting the "Black Grease Paint" on There faces. Light skinned people would also call darker skinned people "buckweed".
 White skin toned people would mostly wear the dark colored makeuo during musical performances.
In the video they also said that whites were afraid of colored people rising up and take all of their power.
Light skinned people will also make comments like "all blacked up".]]> 2018-12-13 18:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/314409813 katherine_spinney https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/314755521 In the article that I read it says that "white privilege was an invisible force that white people needed to recognize,"
I agree with this because recently colored people have been fighting back, and saying black lives matter. They also have been saying that cops go after them more and shoot them more often than they do whites. When back in the day people of color had no rights they were "owned" by light skinned people. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God they have to different communitys. The communities were separated by whites and colored people. They had different life styles. "Racism is what happens when that belief translates into action." "Systemic Racism happens when these structures or processes are carried out by groups with power, such as governments, businessses or schools." In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God they have certain structures and businesses that only colored people go to. For example Janie and Jody's store.  Another term brought up in the book is Bias. Bias is "a conscious or unconscious prejudice against an individual or group based on thier identity" It's basically a belief. In the book TEWWG Janies husand Jody told her to wrap her hair because he didn't like that other men were looking at her beautiful hair. Janie has different hair compared to other colored people, Janie has light dark skin so her hair is straight unlike the other colored women. I feel that as a society we have moved forward because we don't have separated communties by the color of our skin.  ]]> 2018-12-14 17:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/314755521 katherine_spinney https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/314809576 The writer of the poem caged bird Maya Angelou is also a women of color. At the age of seven Maya was raped by her mothers boyfriend. Maya stopped talking for five years because her uncles murdered the man who raped her and she felt like it was her fault. Maya started talking again when she was twelve and a half, when she had Mrs. Flowers an educated African American. Mrs. Flowers emphasized the importance of spoken words. In the book Their eyes Were Watching God Janie is controlled by her husband Jody. Jody told Janie to wrap up her hair becasue he did not like the way other guys were looking at it, he also told her to go back to work when seh started enjoying herself. Jody also told Janie not to speak to the men sitting on the porch of there store. I feel like if she had stoo dup for herself she would have been better off. But I feel she was to afraid of her husband to speak up for herself because she was afraid of what he would do to her. In the poem that Maya wrote it sounds as if she was explaining what it was like to be free.]]> 2018-12-14 19:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/314809576 katherine_spinney https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/316256929 Whiteness is white identity. White identity is being treated and being identified differently because the color of your skin. But when you bring up this topic no one wants to talk about it. To many this kinda topic is sensitive because of the background of it all. White people can talk about blackness without any problem but if you try to bring up whiteness they won't really have intrest in the topic and won't talk. If you study the history of white and the histoty of black history you will see that white identity was more stable than blacks was. The construction of whitness has changed over time goes on. Most people in the United States were seen white and had to right to vote. Some whites have comitted to fighting racism. But others lack the meaning of it all. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God colored people lived in a town together with no whites. Mrs. Turner was one of the characters in the book and she thought she was better than everyone else in the book because she had lighter skin than most blacks like Janie did. Even though Mrs. Turner was black she still had really strong feelings on dark skinned people and was very racist. ]]> 2018-12-20 18:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/316256929 katherine_spinney https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/316448103 In this short story it tells you all of the things that this gril has to due on certain days. For example she has to wash white clothes on Monday and on Tuesday she has to put them on the clothes line to dry. It also tells you things she shouldn't and can't do. The girl has to be careful of everything she does not to upset somone else. She needs to make sure to please others and not be able to do the things she wants to. She was also taught how to do things like hem a dress if it needed to be hemmed. She was told what to do and how to act all the time she was being controlled and there is nothing she could do about it without getting in trouble. No matter what she was always doing things she made dinner for the whites and wasn't even allowed to eat with them and the guests, she was forced to eat in the kitchen at the table alone with no one to talk to. This short story connects to the book Their Eyes Were Watching God because Janie a character in the book was married to a black man named Jody. Her husband at the time told her how to wear her hair and who not to and who to talk to. She was to afraid to stick up for herself so she said nothing and did was she was told. Both of the women/girls were being controlled and managed by someone. ]]> 2018-12-21 17:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_spinney/pszonv3emgd3/wish/316448103