The Brownies' Book

The Best Of The Brownie’s Book I liked the stories in it. I liked reading the grownups corner about the little girl that was asking her mom have colored folks done anything in books. I think that was a good part of the Brownie Book that helped the parents put their input in the magazine. A story that I like in the magazine was “The Heritage” when mother mason helped Julie understand that it wasn’t only herself that she was letting down it was the whole generation. Julie didn’t really understand that she was affecting a lot of people and what her parents have done so she could go to school. It was inspiring to children that were going through the same thing to keep doing what they were doing. Another story was “Dolly’s Dream” I think that was very interesting about the fairy godmother that she dreamed to be the a little girl with golden curls, pale skin, and blue eyes. I think this was a story that could relate to all children in those days that they didn’t like the way the looked because they were portrayed as ugly. In this story it tells them that they should be happy the way they looked.
Another thing that I found nice about the brownie book was the pictures of the children they were so cute. The pictures related to the story “Dolly’s Dream” because in the pictures the children are portrayed as beautiful and cute probably something different from what they see. Like for example in the cartoons that we saw in Ethnic notions how the children were portrayed as darky or with crazy hair. The little people of the month was very inspiring to the children that they could do what ever they wanted to if they try hard enough. I really liked the Brownies’ Book it was good for children at this period in time.

After reading the first part of the book Passing it is similar to ex-colored man because they are both passing. Having a sense of self is in both in Passing and Ex-colored man. I think the book is also focused on women in general. The relationship between Clare and Irene is the focus I think. Irene only passes when she needs to and Clare does it all the time. When I found out that Clare was married to a white man surprised me I didn’t think that she would go that far. Then the scene on page 54 surprised me when Clare husband called her nig as a nickname. That’s when it said something about Clare that she would Anything to pass she would take racist nickname from her husband. I would that she would at least married a man that wasn’t racist. Irene is married to a black doctor and she only passes when she has to unlike Clare. Irene is still in touch with her African American side because of her husband. She doesn’t not disclaim from her African American side. I think that the book is a good book so far and is a change from the poems. I think it shows a good comparison between two women in the same world but two different ways they live their lives in the world. Clare and Irene have a whole different way of looking at the world and how to live it.

film

The film was interesting to watch it was a nice break from reading. I do think that eh images were harmful to African american people. The images were protraying the as ugly big lips blaky, and that they were happy on the platation. Which was all the things that they were not. So i thnk that is was most harmful ot the people that had never seen African americans before and were shoed this images of happy black and mammy which was not true at all. The images were harmful to children of both races. The part of the film that caught my attentiopn was the ryhme with the african american chidren being killed i think that was the most harmful to the children in both races. Another thing that caught my attetnion was that statue of the "mammy" pushing the white child, so it was like showing society that the African American women were taking care of the white chidlren. The film was interesting to see all the way that the Africna American people were percieved by the white people.
I do think that the it does ahve an impact on today still. Like on the food in our markets Aunt Jemania syrup and uncle bens rice. Not until wathcing this film i didnt look at things like food like being a way of the africna American poeple were being protrayed. So this images are still present today it makes me look at things twice.

new negro

The task of negro womanhood had a positive mood to it. It is more on the positive note rather the other things that we have read like Cane where it talks about women in a negative way. One thing i read in the passage by mcdougald speaks of African American women as "a colorful pageant of individuals, each differently endowed." That ever women has something to offer they are their own individual. That was very positive look at African American women and what they can offer. Unlike in Cane where all the women have bad things that they offer to men most of the time. Then after explaining that each individual women has something to offer she puts the women in groups of different working status. There four different groups leisure group the more fortunate ones that get to stay home. The next group which she speaks very highly of is the professional women. She thinks that teachers even though they don't get paid a lot they have a lot in their hands the "future". Another profession she speaks very highly of is the librarian she thinks that they can help the world to read and they can create branches everywhere. So looking at this passage compared to other reading first this is nonfiction and others like Cane fiction. Looking at all the reading i think this one is the most positive about women in the working world. The Cane stories talk about the women depending on men. This passage talks about the women in the working world taking care of the home and working. Even though it is a struggle it is better for them in the aspect of getting ahead as a race and gender in the society that they lived in back then. So overall it was a lot easier to understand then other reading like Cane that were hard to understand.