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American Family

1.Coontz titled her work “The Way We Never Were” because of the ideals surrounding what a “Ideal American Family’’ is meant to look like. The phrase “American dream” of a family with two kids and a dog, in a suburban house with a white picket fence, has long been sed to describe what the typical American family looks like, which is often not what most families actually are. The idea that the man of the house is to be the breadwinner and the woman is meant to be the housekeeper, has since been somewhat forced out of society. It was expected that marriages and families were always to work out and the couple are supposed to stay together till death and be happy for all of their lives, when quite the contrary is true. Coontz touches on this topic when she says that “I found that the male breadwinner family of the 1950s was a very recent, short-lived invention and that during its heyday, rates of poverty, child abuse, marital unhappiness, and domestic violence were actually higher than in the more diverse 1990s.” Furthering that this idea of an “ideal family” was never actually ideal. 

2. According to the Pew Research Center, more children are growing up in households with arrangements other than two parents in their first marriage. This means increased rates of families with parents in their second marriage, parents who aren’t married, households with just one parent, or children living with neither of their parents. Furthermore, two parent households are most common among Asian families and highly educated parents, with white families taking second place. This means that race and social class are tied to the percentage of two parent households in the US. Another interesting trend is that the number of children per household has declined in recent decades, with one and two child families being most common nowadays, and families with three or four children declining in popularity. Another graph also shows a correlation between race, education, and family size: white, Asian, and highly educated parents are likely to have the least children in comparison to Black and Hispanic households and parents with less education.

Woman in Hip Hop

1. The study was combined by Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Theory to get the concept of rap music. It is examined on how racism is common in our daily living for people of color and a certain race is more judged from others. They write how black women are “sapphire” and “jezebel” in sapphire women are headstrong, bossy, and dominating over men and jezebel they are labeled has fierce, sexy, and driven. Wallace states there stereotyping and its started from slavery days that women are able to do more physical work.

2. A large portion of the students who participated in this study defined independence in relation to financial stability. This means milestones such as moving out, owning a car, having a job, and more are all indicators of and contributors to one’s independence. Additionally, some students cited the level of parental involvement they received as another consideration in their definition of independence. Some stated that their parents fostered them into independence by giving them more and more financial a decision-making freedom as they grew up, but on the flip side, others stated that they are still heavily reliant on their parents in their adult lives, which they feel limits their independence. According to the article, female artists in rap “define independence by condemning the disrespectful treatment of women in society by addressing societal issues like harassment and domestic violence” (Moody-Ramirez & Scott, 59), including artists such as Queen Latifah, Eryka Baduj, Sister Souljah, and more. On the flip side, male rappers’ representation of independent women can vary from artist to artist, with some placing women “in positions of sexual exploitation and moral degradation”, while others “promote positive and uplifting messages about the Black experience” (Moody-Ramirez & Scott, 58)