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3 Questions To Ask Myself: - The Black Arts Movement has solely been focused on amplifying  the voice of the black community in a white-driven society, but has also only been mainly vocalizing men's voice in this community. How have women in the black community also receive a voice to be heard alongside the movement? - Despite the Black Arts Movement's main achievement is to display their culture and receive recognition for it in a majorly white community, wouldn't they still have alienated parts of their own community as not everyone's respected culture was appropriately represented or recognized? - Has the Black Arts Movement, which had a big impact in integrating further black culture appropriation in society, spark other minority groups to do the same? How was that received? "Soul Of A Nation" Pieces: Sources: -   The Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) • (blackpast.org) -   Brooklyn Museum: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power - ...

Disenfranchised communities usually refer to communities of minorities, whether they are black, Jewish, Asian, Hispanic, etc. not having a say or choice in how they are represented in media franchises. So, when the topic of representation in pop culture and fine arts is brought up, it can cause some backlash from the communities the media is presenting. These disenfranchised communities had no say, rather had their voice deprived of speaking up for themselves when asked how to be represented in media. With no say in the topic, it would lead to these pop culture references and fine art pieces to misrepresent and most likely discriminate and stereotype these targeted communities. So, there is very little chance that most of these communities approve or like these types of representation in the media and would rather not associate themselves with it. The relationship if very strained and they have a right to be upset. It would be a different thing if these communities actually had a say i...

With knowing the amount of knowledge I know I have about Black History, I feel like I must learn a bit more before I can fully understand what I am learning in this class. What I have learned was through educational systems, but even then, these institutions failed to discuss the topic on a broader term.  Other pieces of knowledge that I have gained was through personal interactions with other people or through the internet. Again, this knowledge that I have gained, I believed was enough, but it simply isn’t for this class’ standards. It’s certainly an overall interesting topic and an essential part of history to learn more about. So if I wish to have a better grasp on this information in this class throughout the year, then I feel like I must expose myself to more pieces of media and literature to understand and connect.

Sweet Flypaper is a collaboration between Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava. The collaboration between them in this novel helped give more insight into Harlem's black community while also being easily readable for white viewers and equally appreciated by black people as well.  However, it's also this collaboration that can face some challenges as the white community may not see any interest or reason as to why they must document and publish the black community's way of living and culture in their archives. Even with how real these photos may be in correctly representing the black community's culture, they may still face some hurtful stereotypes and pushback in ever being properly represented in society.

Cultural Production in the media in 2022 is nowadays more expansive and more diverse in the communities the media decides to represent. But this exact issue of what the media can choose what communities to represent and what about that community they can represent can lead to several issues. It can give the public a false view of what that community actually is, leading them to create hurtful stereotypes of them or to mis-accurately represent their culture.  Just like in Thomas Allen Harris' film, "Goes Through Darkly Lens", he discusses how the media representing the African American community in America's history of archives represent hurtful stereotypes of his community. If it isn't a black person behind those camera lens taking these images, then that is what leads to these hurtful stereotypes and for them to be discriminated against in a majorly white society. Representation matters and it is what shapes people's images of the black community.