https://contemporaryracism.org/961/the-help-and-oscars/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sat, 24 May 2014 00:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/961/the-help-and-oscars/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Thu, 03 May 2012 22:16:52 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=961#comment-256 This is something that I find very interesting and really got me thinking. Before becoming educated in such topics and before taking this class I had not been aware of such things. However, now I realize that it is true that the movies that are most well liked are the ones that place minorities into their typical stereotypes. When I saw the movie The Help over winter break I did not think twice about how the black women were being portray. I didn’t realize this movie portrays black women as maids, which is the stereotype that many whites have of black women. As I didn’t think about it until now, I’m sure that other white people without the experience of classes such as this one have not thought about it either. It is probably vasty believed that these movies are well liked because they are “good movies.” While movies such as The Help are good movies, they are also movies that go along with the white norm. They don’t challenge anything for white people. These movies allow whites to maintain their stereotypes and maintain their access to privilege.

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