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Summery Post

The summery Jane the Virgin, The Help as well as Native Hope all bring awareness to their respective backgrounds being Hipanic, African American and Native American, identities as well as diversity. Highlighting the different struggles, upbringings, religious and cultural issues each one must deal with. Along with putting the forefront of tacking issues with racism, cultural identity issues, race and immigration issues, civil right and covering up and erasing the history of that cultural.

 These media forms were interesting to learn and watch to see how these groups were represented in media and o see how many families and people relate to these characters and their struggles with many different political and personal issues within their communities.

Watching these and comparing them to other forms of media I have seen and trying to find some that relate to each other really shows that we do not have a good diversity of these types of movies, TV and websites with general information that is important for viewers to see and learn.

These relate to the course material by including many diverse views in minority groups of their differences within dominant current political culture.

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Native Hope is a nonprofit organization started as a way for “A world with no barriers for native Americans” According to Their vision on Native Hope  website. They believe it is time to heal the historical wounds caused by the near elimination of Native Americans in North America, as they speak out with community members and partner with various tribes across the country to help finds solutions and empower Native Americans for a better tomorrow. Native Hope acts by Listening to the needs of the community, creating networks within their community, taking action as well as developing relationships overtime with tribal nations. On their website they tell their story of the ‘Native Story’ ‘Our Work’ as well as ‘Voices of the Indian Country’ breaking down into subcategories of building and understanding, hope and resources as they speak on “The story  the North American Indigenous peoples is a story of loss, hardship, violence, betrayal, and misappropriation. It is also a story of community, spirituality, diversity, honor, and resilience.” As they take a deep dive into accounts and ways of life for Native Americans throughout generations and give in depth history lesion into the culture, history and way of life and the continuation of life for Native American across the country.

Native American History (nativehope.org)

Native hope speaks on the loss and heartache of many within their community for generations, from Wounded Knee, Trail of Tears, Seminole wars, and many more horrific events that took place. They speak on the history of colonization, and the accounts from Native Americans on being forced into the reservations, racism and suppression of their beliefs, and practices. Being murdered in cold blood for who they were and being forced to act, look, and be a ‘proper American.’ These events are covered  and also spoken on in ‘A Different Mirror’ By Ronald Takaki as he describes the accounts of Wounded Knee as well as being forced into reservations, The ‘Indian New Deal’ and many other accounts from historical evidence of the time as well as real accounts and eye witness to the events happening t the time from Native American such as Louise Weasel Bear at Wounded Knee 1890

“We tried to run, but they shot us like we were buffalo,” said Louise Weasel Bear. “I know there are some good white people, but the soldiers must be mean to shoot children and women.”6 Fleeing the camp, the Indians were pursued by the soldiers. “I saw some of the other Indians running up the coulee, so I ran with them, but the soldiers kept shooting at us and the bullets flew all around us,” reported Mrs. Rough Feathers. “My father, my grandmother, my older brother, and my younger brother were all killed. My son who was two years old was shot in the mouth that later caused his death.” Trails marked by blood and bodies radiated outward from the camp. “Dead and wounded women and children and little babies were scattered all along there where they had been trying to run away,” Black Elk reported. “The soldiers had followed them along the gulch as they ran and murdered them in there.” As well as being forced onto reservations ““Indian Question,” however. Regarding themselves as “friends” of the Indians, they believed that the reservations only served to segregate native peoples from white society and postpone their assimilation. Their viewpoint became policy in 1887, when Congress passed the Dawes Act. Hailed by the reformers as the “Indian Emancipation Act,” the law reversed Walker’s strategy, seeking instead to break up the reservations and accelerate the transformation of Indians into property owners and U.S. citizens.”

Ghost Dance Wounded Knee (youtube.com)

Flathead Reservation Early 1900s https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/lhxnnz/flathead_reservation_early_1900s/

Modern Map of Native American Reservations https://mapsmith.net/work/a-modern-map-of-native-american-lands/

Early Native American Reservation Location early 1900s http://www.flickr.com/photos/cartoko/4459281953/

Native Hope represents racial and ethnic identities by playing a crucial role in the preservation of cultural identity among the Native Youth and amongst adults as well. As Native Hope on their website gives history chapters of the wars and battles fought for generations, Cultural lessons for those wanting and willing to educate themselves an example of this can be found on Chapter 2 An Overview of Native American Spirituality and Values on their website “ Native American tribes did not think of “religion” as a distinct element of their larger life as a culture and community. Instead, they thought of all of life—every task, every ceremony, every community gathering, every relationship with humans and non-human things—as part of a larger sacred story. The spiritual and the physical are not separate but interwoven and constantly interacting with each other.” As Native Hope is consistently  educating and supporting those within the community and giving ways to access others and their culture and background hoping they can find a pace were they are happy and feel a sense of belonging as many young Native Americans feel as they don’t belong as there is only “ there are 574 federally recognized tribes existing in the United States, with 229 of these located in Alaska. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 6.9 million American Indian and Alaska Natives living in the United States, and they make up roughly 2% of the total population. In the wake of centuries of abuse and disruption, these resilient peoples are on a journey of rediscovery and healing.” According to Native Hope The conversation regarding race, ethnicity, and cultural diversity is brought on by the approach taken by Native hope and other resources like ‘A Different Mirror’ by Ronald Takaki ‘A Savage Performance’ by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Coco Fusco's "Couple in the Cage" Author(s): Diana Taylor. These forms of media have brough to light the horrific events and ways Native Americans were treated, murdered, culturally suppressed, and treated like spectacles and performance pieces in a circus show like in ‘Couple in a Cage’ . But this forma of media especially Native Hope have also brought awareness to many and have brought innovative ideas of love for the cultural, racial and ethnicity  as well as  an understanding the historical trauma that has been passed own due to racial and cultural humiliation and suppression. But that

is all changing and healing because of the work Native hope and many others are doing for the Native American culture.

Couple in a Cage https://www.pinterest.com/pin/68609594295681532/

Some of the programs offered by Native Hope for Empowering Native Americans

Citations

Native Hope History Native American History (nativehope.org)

Ghost Dance Wounded Knee (youtube.com)

Flathead Reservation Early 1900s https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/lhxnnz/flathead_reservation_early_1900s/

Modern Map of Native American Reservations https://mapsmith.net/work/a-modern-map-of-native-american-lands/

Early Native American Reservation Location early 1900s http://www.flickr.com/photos/cartoko/4459281953/

Couple in a Cage https://www.pinterest.com/pin/68609594295681532/

Building a Hopeful Future: The Restoration of Native American Life and Culture (nativehope.org)

“A Different Mirror” Ronald Takaki

A Savage Performance’ by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Coco Fusco's "Couple in the Cage" Author(s): Diana Taylor

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The Help starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janey and many more as it has a full cast of A list actors and actresses produced by DreamWorks Studios released first as a novel in 2009 by Kathryn Stockett and turned into a live action movie directed by Tate Taylor in 2011.

The help movie poster https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/the-help/images/43234987/title/help-2011-poster-photo

Set during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the story mainly follows  Skeeter Phelan, a young white aspiring writer. Who Skeeter returns to her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, and secures a job writing in the local paper writing a column giving cleaning advice that she is unwary about, as she applied for a job  publisher Harper & Row in Manhattan, but senior editor Elaine Stein encourages her to write about what bother her in society. However, becomes increasingly annoyed with the racist attitudes of her privileged friends and family. As well as disturbed by the mistreatment of the Black maids who raise white children but are often treated as inferior, Skeeter decides to draft a book that tells their stories from their perspective (hence what bothers her about society and the inspiration The Help). Aibileen Clark, is another of the maids who agrees to share her experiences despite her better judgment as well as the risks that are involved. Aibileen works for Elizabeth, and cares for her daughter Mae Mobley, who sadly her own mother, Elizabeth Leefolt  is more concerned with her social status than the care for her daughter. Adding onto that maid Minny Jackson, also decides to contribute to Skeeter's book. Despite facing her own challenges with her horrible and racist employer, Hilly Holbrook Minny's outspokenness becomes a voice for change within the community. As tensions escalate in Jackson, exposing a deep-rooted racism as well as challenging the current status quo. With the maids' courageous decision to speak whist sadly risks their jobs, as well as  their safety, horribly even their lives. Amazingly their stories empower many others to confront the current  prejudice and discrimination. With the publishing of ‘The Help’ Skeeter helps all the maids voices be heard and passively calls out the status quo and her racist friends (who are terribly upset, but they cannot do anything as if they do it will become clearer to society how true their actions were). At the end of the movie Skeeter ends up taking the job in New York and sharing the proceeds of the book to help the maids gets  better pay, as Minny can work full time again for Celia and Jhonny and sadly after Hillys pressure Elizabeth fires Aibileen for ‘stolen Silverware’ as she leaves she begs Elizabeth o love her daughter as she quits domestic work to become an author.

"You Is Smart, You Is Kind, You Is Important" (youtube.com)

Abilene speaking and caring for to Mae (it is so sweet)

Civil rights movement in 1960 for Martin Luther King Jr,=. https://www.bustle.com/articles/138780-5-images-of-civil-rights-protests-in-the-60s-that-are-eerily-similar-to-what-were

The movie The Help relates to current topics and reading as not included in the summery but in the movie it is believed that ‘black people carry different diseases than white people’  Even though The Help is not photography it still displays how black people were treated in the form of visual art as taken from “Only Skin Depp” by Mirzoeff “ By making visible the effects of a system on one person’s body the picture brought the shadow archive in the open and countered it” It brought to life to social injustice of Africans /African Americans into todays society through the visuals of words and personal accounts instead of pictures. The racial discrimination and misjudgment based on skin color and features  and where someone comes from “racism itself has been intensely ambivalent about he place of one’s skin or other physical features in determining race” Taken from Mirzoeff as The Help as well as ‘Only Skin Deep’ both equally the same in either photography or in words shows the racial discrimination and horrible atrocities though means of physical media. There can be change Minny and Aibileen also embody Sojourner Truths “I sell the Shadow to Support The Substance” (even anonymously) as they worked and took so much billeting from many but used their experiences and life stories to help (and for The Help) as they used to work for others benefits but now sold their life experiences for their own benefit.

“I sell The Shadow That Supports The Substance” Sojourner Truth Unknown | Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance" | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

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The Help represents racial and ethnic identities by showing what life was like during the 1960s civil rights movement, by exposing the social gaps between African Americans and Whites during this time, by showing what life was like for domestic workers from a full on POV of their everyday lives and how they were treated, talked to and frowned upon.  It generates conversation regarding races, ethnicity and cultural diversity by showing the racial segregation and horrible rumors believed to be true by many, an example of this is during the movie it is said to be believed that “black people carry different diseases than white people and we shouldn’t share bathroom with them” Thus why many women in the movie forced their maids to use the outdoors or separate bathrooms, but at the same time wanted them to cook, clean and take care of their children for them. It shows the different classes between maids and white women by clothing and how they are dressed and perceived in society White women and men wearing nice clothing with hair and makeup done, and the maids dressed in the same dirty clothing and tired from doing everything in the house.  It generates a conversation to the perception of African American during the Civil rights movement and how little power they had and how they were segregated and treated. Taken from Mirzoeff “Numerous accounts argue that while these signs may be important what matters is the internal of the difference that may be as effectively concealed as revealed by external appearance.”  The Help generated this discussion in real time and in the movie/book of how the treatment of African Americans and domestic workers was horrendous and needed improvement and that we are all the same at the end of the day no matter our skin color, origin, and background everyone deserves to be treated like a human being.

Citations

Mirzoeff “Only Skin Deep” 2003 Mirzoeff150.pdf

 The help movie poster https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/the-help/images/43234987/title/help-2011-poster-photo

"You Is Smart, You Is Kind, You Is Important" (youtube.com)

Abilene speaking and caring for to Mae (it is so sweet)

“I sell The Shadow That Supports The Substance” Sojourner Truth Unknown | Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance" | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

Civil rights movement in 1960 for Martin Luther King Jr,=. https://www.bustle.com/articles/138780-5-images-of-civil-rights-protests-in-the-60s-that-are-eerily-similar-to-what-were

All of humanity is beautiful https://www.pinterest.com/pin/everyone-deserves-respect-no-one-should-be-treated-differently-based-off-of-appearance-we-all-human-worthy-of-love-life-fre--399624166938113214/

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TUMBLR Blog #1 (Post)Television

Jane the virgin is a series romantic comedy TV show set in Miami, FL about the main character Jane Gloriana Villanueva a Catholic Venezuelan American who LOVES telenovelas (a type of tele serial drama and or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America) and writing. Jane made a vow to her Abuela Alba to save herself until marriage. Well things go very south during her annual checkup at the Gyno when she is accidentally inseminated by the drunk doctor. Turns out the doner Rafael who is a cancer survivor and didn’t think he’d ever have the chance to have kids due to the chemo treatments , is also her boss at the hotel she waitresses’ at (who ironically is also her teenage crush and first kiss who never called her back after that night ) that was his last sample, and it was supposed to go to his wife Petra who was in the room next to Jane’s and wanted to surprise Rafael with the insemination, that was his last chance to be a father. The series is full of twists and turns of her trying to manage her new family, pregnancy, love life to her long-term boyfriend Michael and having Rafaels baby, her blossoming professional career and family. The theme of the series revolves around Self-discovery of motherhood, personal religious beliefs, and sense of self, love and romance as Jane faces heartbreak and loss as well as new love, her family and how important family and her families cultural and heritage is to her, as well as her overall morals and ethics cited from the show she specifically says to her finance Michael, “The reason I stayed a virgin is because I didn’t want to become like my mom: an unmarried, pregnant woman. But here I am, an unmarried, pregnant woman.”

Jane the Virgin series Poster By The Movie Database

Janes Flower she kept to remind her of her promise to Alba from Nicole Cobar

Beautiful Flower Scene (youtube.com)

 It relates to current course topics and reading and screenings, with relating to reading such as “Searching for Gold Mountain” With talks about “Chinese immigration to America and their struggle for full citizenship” as well as “Dred Scotts, Wong Kim Ark and Vanessa Lopez” a Documentary “explores the recurring question about who has the right to be an American citizen”. relating to Janes Abuela Alba struggle for citizenship In America and being an undocumented citizen and being threatened to be deported back to her home country by the hospital she is receiving care from in in episode eight. The article Picturing us BY Deborah Willis speaks about representation “I was excited to see the photographs it was the first book I had ever seen with “colored” people in it, people I had recognized people that remined me of my own family.” Jane the Virgin resides with this article by Will with “While women have made strides toward parity in terms of basic representation on TV, this representation rarely feels authentic. As The Mary Sue points out, female characters are less likely to be shown as employed, more likely to have an obvious marital status and are overwhelmingly in their twenties. Latina characters in particular are often portrayed as hypersexualized and one-dimensional both on TV and in the media at large. "The media is a venue and an avenue to educate and teach our next generation." — Gina Rodriguez But Jane the Virgin is doing much to combat these insulting depictions. He virgin is breaking stereotypes but also giving representation to the Latino community” As described by “6 ways ‘Jane the Virgin is destroying Latino Stereotypes’ by Julie Zeilinger Janes the Virgin gives a broad and beauty display of the community, the culture the diversity and representation and giving young girls watching the show someone is an odd predicament someone who looks like them and maybe has the same culture, language, religion and looks like them while also tackling stereotypes brought against the community.   

Jane and her Family Maetos birthday. EP 43

Jane the Virgin generates conversation representing racial and ethnic identities by being truly authentic and highlighting how proud the characters are of their heritage, and dialect. Quoted again from six ways ‘Jane the Virgin is destroying Latino Stereotypes’ by Julie Zeilinger Janes “Jane and her family are proud of their heritage. In fact, Jane's grandmother speaks in Spanish on the show (her dialogue is translated into English captions), creating a "Spanglish" household. This detail is never tokenistic or self-congratulatory, however; it is naturally integrated into the flow of the characters' daily lives, much in the same way it is for bilingual Latino families across the country.” How jane and her family even though not in their ‘home’ country they still are proud of where they came from and the beautiful culture and dialect, as well as religion that surrounds their family and heritage and they pass it on to every generation forward no matter where thy are. Referring to Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above by Susan Saulny a quote from that article that really ties into this is “I think it’s really important to acknowledge who you are and everything that makes you that,” said Ms. Wood” even though Jane and her family are full Venezuelan and not ‘mixed’ they have found the importance in finding who they are and staying true to everything that makes you and representing that proudly. Jane the Virgin generates conversation regarding race, ethnicity, and cultural diversity by creating a show that is authentic and feel ‘normal’ by not playing into stereotypes and representing Hispanic culture correctly and non-bigotry way. By having viewers feel seen and represented in a way that feels “like a normal family and familiar” while addressing issues and stereotypes brought on by a lot of TV shows. Quoted from Why we should celebrate Jane the Virgin’s respectful inclusivity and final season return by Karina Zapata and directly quoted from Gina Rodriguez ““For once, I was reading a script where they were not talking about my ethnicity. They were not putting a Puerto Rican flag on my shoulder. They were not putting a taco in my hand.” And directly quoted from viewers of the show ““I have always found it funny that the shows I have felt most seen in were #UglyBetty, #JaneTheVirgin and #ODAAT. Although the leads were all Latina, their multi-generational families looked most like mine, and I loved them for it. I am fully devastated by this,” said well-known freelance writer, Cate Thornback, on Twitter”.

Jane The Virgin - Tackling Important Topics (youtube.com)

Tackling Important Topics in ‘Jane the virgin’

Citations

 Saulny, Susan, Jan, 29 , 2011, “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above” , https://uws.instructure.com/courses/683322/files/77259357/download?download_frd=1

Willis, Debroah, 1994, “Picturing Us” , https://uws.instructure.com/courses/683322/files/77259637/download?download_frd=1

Takaki, Ronald, 1, January, 1993,  "Searching for Gold Mountain”

Zeilinger, Julie, April, 5, 2024,“6 Ways 'Jane the Virgin' Is Destroying Latino Stereotypes”,  65 genius products with over 4.5 stars on Amazon that deserve their hype (mic.com)

Zapata, Karina March, 25, 2019, “Why we should celebrate Jane the Virgin’s respectful inclusivity and final season return”,  https://www.thereflector.ca/2019/03/25/why-we-should-celebrate-jane-the-virgins-respectful-inclusivity-and-final-season-return/

Galisky, Anne , 2014 ,“14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark and Vanessa Lopez”,  14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark and Vanessa Lopez | Kanopy

Cobar, Nicole  “A Woman’s Flower: An Examination of “Jane the Virgin” , A Woman’s Flower: An Examination of “Jane the Virgin” | Nicole Cobar

Jane the Virgin Series Poster, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/61418-jane-the-virgin/images/posters

Channel Guide Staff, May, 9,2016, “Jane the Virgin Chapter 43 recap: Happy Birthday, Mateo!”,  Jane the Virgin Chapter 43 recap: Happy Birthday, Mateo! (channelguidemag.com)

Jane the Virgin , Feb, 20, 2018, “Beautiful Flower Scene”, Beautiful Flower Scene (youtube.com)

The Paley Center for Media March 22, 2010, “Jane The Virgin - Tackling Important Topics” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJIs1UTLVcU

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The last 200 pages in a SJM book be like:

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I'm sorry, but it must be said.

I understand those who are attracted to Country artists and their music-if that's your thing fine. But you can't tell me that there isn't some type of black magic at work for us metal heads to be blessed with these men in our lifetime.

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The scenery in Over The Garden Wall is just ✨mesmerizing ✨

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““Do you love yourself,” he asked And the answer twitched on my lips. “Some days. Some days I feel like I can take on the world. Where I’m so full of light and self love that nothing can stop me from being happy. Where I feel like I can reach the sky and paint it whatever color I imagine. Where love is synonymous with you, me, us, them, everyone. But other days I feel so weak. So small. I wonder how I ever felt so great about myself or life and I find all these things that shouldn’t mean anything to me and I pick at them until I fall apart. I wrap myself up in tattered pieces of cloth and tell myself I am warm even though I’m shivering.””

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- But at least I can love myself some days.

( @readyfornothing )

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You know you’re not okay when you go to bed and you’re not in the mood to masturbate. At that point you realize you’re too sad, too mad, too empty, or maybe too tired to do that, or anything else.

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Emoji Spell to foster inner peace, self-love, and the banishment of irritation, upset, dysphoria, and personal chaos.

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⭐️An emoji spell to help bring you sweet dreams and keep you safe while you sleep…⭐️

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“I hate my face. But I’m trying to find the beauty and love in it. By getting the haircut I want. By facial treatments and diamond peels. By going to the dentist to get my teeth fixed. I hate my body. But I’m trying to find the beauty and love in it. By running five miles a day and eating healthy food. By getting a massage once a month and a body scrub. By trying not to smoke too much. I hate my brain. But I’m trying to find the beauty and love in it. By seeking help from psychiatrists and psychologists. By taking my medications every day as required. By believing that there’s always hope. I hate myself, but I’m trying to love me one day.”

— Juansen Dizon // I’m Trying

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You deserve to be insanely happy. You deserve to feel appreciated. You deserve to feel important to people that are important to you. You deserve to believe in yourself. Your dreams aren’t ridiculous. Your goals aren’t stupid and naive. You deserve to feel inner peace. You deserve to have clarity. You deserve to feel grounded. You deserve to feel safe. You deserve to feel loved and supported - especially by yourself.

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The world is a little happier with you in it.

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“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”

— Lauren Kate

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“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”

— Hermann Hesse (via purplebuddhaquotes)