Behind Beats, Hip Hop, and Rhymthes

These are just some notes I took down as I watched this Documentary.

•  most men listen to hip  hop,  party to hip and grew up listening to hip hop
• in the hip hop cultured you have to be strong, tough, be a player,have money,
• before hip hop was soft but rap brought masculinity
• they party to the music but dont question the lyrics
• people think hip hop is  so violent
• hip hop bash gays
• in hip hop videos they throw money at the cameras, have women dancing around, have men posing
• they talk about guns, drugs, and put fear into other men hearts
• men call women bitches/hoes because of they way they dress
• the women let the men call them names and harass them
• hip hop don't condone gay men
• they don't even  talk about that subject at all
• it have to always be hard core
• the man in the rap battle rap about violence and drugs because he says no one want to hear you raping about good and positive things
• gate keepers- provide access,opportunities for you
• they rap about they things they rap about because they people who give them a chance to make it want them to rap about guns,drugs, and violence.(Donisha Banks)

Who Fault is it ?

In chapter 2 of this book I'm reading called Getting Played, this young lady name  LaSondra talks about her experience when she got raped. She say that when she got raped when she had on some baggy pants and a boys shirt on. Some people might say it was the girl fault because of the way she dressed but in LaSondra's  case we see that's not true. If a boy want to rape you they will rape you no matter what you got on . Some boys  in my class feel that if a girl is wearing skin tight or revealing clothes that they are asking for something  and they know boys are going to look and give you attention so its they own fault if something happen to them . So the argument is who fault is it if a girl that is wearing revealing clothes get raped ?( Donisha Banks)

Gender N The Hood Chapter 2

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Reading chapter 2 I find a lot of things were messed up about it. The girls in this chapter are afraid to walk outside at night by theirselves.Everyday the girls are getting rapped and getting beat up. The stupid part about it is the neighborhood is it happens and don’t do anything. Are they afraid or what? I think they got so used of seeming it happens that nobody cares anymore. I think everyone is trying to protect their selves. The women are getting beat up just for walking up the street at the wrong part of the night. I want to know why these women are getting beat up like that. There is nothing being done to protect these women from harm. WHO DO THEY CALL ON FOR HELP?
         The police are not an opinion. When the police are being called on no one answer the phone. When the phone is answered no one come to help these women. In the chapter one of the girls was being rape by the police officer. In the chapter the police officer was doing the most crime. How can you help the city and street when you don’t care to help these people? The police officers are no help.
        As in the story the women are not respect by the men. The older men are run behind the younger women that don’t want them. They are touching the women booty and don’t want to leave them alone. The men feel as if they don’t want to be touch don’t wear what you are wearing. I don’t know why the men think like that. Just because you dress a certain way that don’t mean I want to be touch.

Gender'n the ' Hood

I really found this chapter interesting because it talked about the difference between women and men  sexual harassment , violence and other acts if violence.Throughout the whole chapter the author talked about  the interviews she constructed with the youth. The women told their stories of how  they don't feel safe in their neighborhood's at night because they often get harassed or fear for their saftey. As a women ,men see us as being weak and they take advantage of that. Men are always abusing their wives are girlfriends because they know that the women is weaker than he is physically and mentally. If a girl is walking home at night by herself, men standing outside hanging around or selling drugs , would sexual harass her by saying sexual things or try and talk to her and get mad when she don't want to talk to them back so they call her nasty names or even rape her. Now it wasn't just the young women that was interviewed that shared their experience if how young men act in their neighborhood, the young men addimited that this was how men act period in the neighborhood. Men don't have to face the same things women have to face in the Hood. Men are seen as a strong figure so they wouldn't have to worry about  getting sexual harassed or anything like that , they have to worry about gangs , getting involved in drugs or with guns. Over all men are seen as a more powerful figure than women are seen.

Chapter One Getting Played

Reading this chapter they made a lot of good points. One thing that really caught my eyes was the Gender, Social Context, and Violence against Women. Reading this it caught my eye. The black girls that live in a poor neighborhood it’s all little hard. A lot of these girls can’t afford to go to college. In their hood there something that called "get it how you live.” That basically means that if you are poor then that’s what you would live. Their lots of girls that try to do something for their selves but it don’t really work out for them. How could you got to college when you can’t afford it. Some girls do well for themselves they go get jobs and try to pay there ways thru college no matter what it takes. It think the reason some girls don’t go to college is cause the don’t apply theirselves.They have this mind frame that my parent  aint go to college so why should I.
       Most girls that from a poor neighborhood look for other jobs. They decide to go be stripper, video girl and dancers. Then once they get part of that life it seems like the men don’t have respect for these women. These girls that have goods like this are trying to make pay their way thru college.

Getting Played Chap. 1

In chapter 1 of “Getting Played” the author focuses on outlooks on gender and urban violence. The violence that is specifically focused on would be violence from black men to black women.  His goal is to bring together significant strands of criminological research, to investigate how the structural facilitate both cultural adoptions and social contexts that heighten and shape the tremendous gender-based violence faced by urban African American girls and women.

I come to realize and discussed with my professor that the article is mainly focused on black African American women because the research is being held by white women. As stated in the article women are being domestically raped and statistics state that sexual violence emerges as a consequence of structural and cultural feature of society.

I feel that sexual violence or any type of violence towards black women should have been focused and researched on. Researchers have found that structural gender inequality, including economic inequality, is correlated with rates of rape.

The part of the article that I am interested in is the sexual violence is especially severe and focused on college populations generally, and fraternities specifically. Sociologists Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer highlighted on three overriding features that, make college fraternities high risk.

I think all the points that are being brought up should be focused on even more because it’s time for closure on the violence that should be prohibited.

:D signed
Myeisha Keith

Getting Played Chapter 1

In "Getting Played" an African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence the author Jody Miller  documents violence experienced by poor African American girls. Drawing on a interview by 75 girls and boys , she aimed to investigate how the structural inequalities that create extreme racial, and urban poverty facilitate in both cultural adaptations and  social context. In this chapter Miller talks about routine violence faced by urban African American girls while at the same time avoiding perpetuating negative stereotypes of young black men as predators. She argues that violence is deeply rooted in structures of gender, race, and inequalities in distressed urban neighborhoods.
Miller interview a few people about their communities where public space is male space, where social tides and involvement is limited by self-isolation as a strategy. She went about taking pictures on the streets at females and men and she realized that the women where faces away from the cameras with their butts showing. She feels that the females were possessing like that , learning from whats around them.

Getting Played

In Getting Played the author is doing research on African American girls , urban inequality, and gendered violence. Recent research reveal that the intimate partner is heightend in disadvantaged urban communities. Researchers have also found that male peer support and norms favoring gender inequality, including rigid gender expectations of women and men roles in the relationship. In addition research suggests that adolescent dating violence occurs in public spaces view of peers and that gendered context of adolescence make it especially difficult to intervene in abusive dating relationships.

Miller  collected her data  by interviewing young women and young me  and collecting a survey. This survey collected general demographic and descriptive information and included questions about youth friends and social activities. It focused on three specific types of gender based agression: sexual harrasment , sexual coercion, and assault. This research was directed towards the youth. This sample was directed towards St Louis because of the  distressed urban community. Miller feel like urban violence is going on because of the type of environment people live in.
(Donisha Banks)

Boys of Baraka !

They had this program that take about 30 young boys toa boarding school name  Baraka in Africa for 2 years to. The idea is to take them out of the society they know and place them in a more focus safe society where the don't have to worry about nothing but school. These boys was out of Baltimore, in some of the worst schools and was doing horrible in their classes. They were not performing on the level they should have been . They grades and behavior was terrible.  So this Baraka school gave these boys a opportunity to go further in life instead of staying in the same poor society they grew up in . Once these boys was put out if their confront zone and exposed to a new society, all of them were doing good in school and was looking forward to going to high school and graduate . This is a prime example of how much your society can really play apart in your education. These boys didn't have to worry about what problems they parents were facing or over crowded classes. They didn't have to be around negative people or children that didn't want to br something in life . Their teachers worked with them and let them know they could do whatever they wanted to do and they and even their class mates gave them motivation because when they see somebody else doing good , they want to go good. Sadly the boys were not able to go back to the school the next year because of a war going on and some of boys began to go back to their old habbits.

(Donisha Banks )