Racism And Stereotypes Of African American Males - 1363 Words

Racism and stereotypes occur greatly throughout the life of Jesmyn ward. The Men We Reaped would talk about how African American males would not leave their town because all of the influences that are around their life. So the research articles in sociology and psychology talk a lot about the stereotypes of African American males and women are more prone to stay in their home town and not do much with their life. So these articles hopefully will give insight to anybody that reads these articles and realize how people actually stereotypes African Americans. The way Men We Reaped relates to the topic that I chose and the book has material that talks a lot about racism and stereotyping. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward had a lot information on†¦show more content†¦So the article talks how people actually experience discrimination in their own life. The first article is the one that gave me more insight about how discrimination actually effects African American people in their every day life. This article gives us example on 15 participants, who were the age of 18-68 and from both genders. This article talked more about how the participants felt in certain situations. The four situation that they want to get is shopping experiences, law enforcement contact, employment, and being black in Topeka. Here is an example of one of the participant experience while shopping â€Å"Now when I go to clothing stores, I’ll look up and there’ll be other folks in the store and they’re watching me while the store is being stolen blind two aisles over† (Birzer and Smith- Mahdi pg.27). The next experience would be contact with law enforcement and this what the participant said that â€Å"one particular incident involved when his keys were locked in his car. While he was using a coat hanger to retrieve his keys the police arrived. He stated â€Å"Two more squad cars came through. They were like, whose car is this?† He reported that the officers not only ran his tags for warrants but also would not assist with retrieving his keys. He also added that when a Black female officer drove up she was willing to assist them with retrieving the keys. He questioned if the