Final Project Proposal: Black Women in Media

            My semester project will be based upon black women in media.  I will focus on the stereo typical opinions, roles, expectations and beliefs that are placed on the black feminine culture in society.  I will address the ways in which media and technology today shapes the opinion of the black feminine culture. 

            I will tackle this subject matter by showing the power that media possess and the ways in which the owners and the media makers have the ability to control the audience by what they chose to deliver.  Media in today’s world controls what is conveyed by the public, thus it has the ability to tell a story, which could be either good or bad.  This in turn has the ability to make or break the subject matter.  My job with this project will be to show how use a few blogs and websites, to also get their opinions on how they see black women in media and how they are affected by it, as well as what they see for black women in media in the future.

           Currently my project is a work in progress, I am still cultivating my ideas. My final project will be written, sort of like an article, with many pictures, and videos to support my ideas. My project is about black females and the way we are portrayed in media.  I am making this because as a black female this is a topic matters to me.  It is a topic that has always peaked my interest.  I am making this for myself, and for all black females in general.  People like my 12 year old daughter, who cannot seem to identify their self in today’s media, which is primarily centered on mainly one race. My intent is to do this project as a written assignment, strictly because it how I feel comfortable in explaining things.  Explaining the way I see things and my biases that are imposed on society today.  Once I have completed all of my interviews and research I will post my project to my blog as well as other websites. This will fit into my portfolio as research, and being a black woman who relies on media, it will be a learning experience which I will rely on as time go on.  This will grow and progress as I learn about media and its effect on the black female culture, and hopefully inspire others to take a step back and look at the world around them.

Work Cited:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/10/10/essence-black-women-still-poorly-depicted-in-media/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/the-images-of-black-women-in-media_n_4102322.html

http://amandadecadenet.com/truth-wisdom/why-the-presence-of-black-women-in-media-is-important-for-everyone/

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/journalisms/2013/10/black_women_in_media_portrayed_as_gold_diggers_jezebels_and_baby_mamas.html