Journal #17

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Journal #17:

Q= For the past five weeks, we’ve studied how language perpetuates ideology and hegemony throughout the world via mass communication. Specifically, we’ve looked at how language is used to construct norms in relationship to gender, and now race. Let’s transition the conversation now to look at how language is used to resist, deny, or reconstruct the status quo. For this journal, offer examples that are either modern or historical, in which language has been used to challenge ideological norms.

A= Language is, in my opinion, the most powerful thing in this whole world because you can do so much with it. Express your love for someone, help out others that are in need of help, and standing for what you believe in that's right. A very famous example of how language can be used to resist was started by Claudette Colvin. Colvin used her beliefs and words to express the problem of racial problems towards those with 'colored' skin. In our society today, many women and men take a part of the Women's march to express the rights that women deserve because of their equality. The attendees of these events use their words to resist and deny the amount of segregation putting placed on females because of there "gender".