Polly (Pauline) Mykala B, Justin P, Sean S

Internalized Oppression Learning to live with the stereotypes that society has forced upon us and society as a whole continuously accepting these stereotypes without question.

How Does It Manifest? The way Pauline views relationships The way she views herself worth and beauty

Evidence #1 “Then the screen would light up, and I’d move right on in them pictures…Them pictures gave me a lot of pleasure, but it made coming home hard, and looking at Cholly hard. I don’t know. I ’member one time I went to see Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. I fixed my hair up like I’d seen hers on a magazine.” (Spring, Morrison)

Evidence #2 “Pauline felt uncomfortable with the few black women she met. They were amused by her because she did not straighten her hair. When she tried to make up her face as they did, it came off rather badly. Their goading glances and private snickers at her way of talking and dressing developed in her a desire for new clothes. [...] The sad thing was that Pauline did not really care for clothes and makeup. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way” (Spring, Morrison).

Evidence #3 She was never able, after her education in the movies to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen. (page 166)

Authors Objective Not everything you hear or see is true.