Tracy, was about fourth-grade girls who valued their gender and racial identity through popular music. The music taught them how to be women, and how to look out for the “bad boys”. It made them look forward to the future of womanhood. It also sparked conflict between their friendships. When the Black girls caught the White girls dancing or singing to “Black music” such as TLC, or Destiny’s Child, the White girls were often told to act their color. As a city girl who moved to the south in the second-grade, I felt that this story related to me. I’ve heard plenty of times to “stop acting white” because of the way I spoke and the way I acted and dressed. I still hear it to this day and I don’t think it’s fair. Just because I’m Black, I shouldn’t have to conform to all of the stereotypes and the ways music portrays us to
Tracy, was about fourth-grade girls who valued their gender and racial identity through popular music. The music taught them how to be women, and how to look out for the “bad boys”. It made them look forward to the future of womanhood. It also sparked conflict between their friendships. When the Black girls caught the White girls dancing or singing to “Black music” such as TLC, or Destiny’s Child, the White girls were often told to act their color. As a city girl who moved to the south in the second-grade, I felt that this story related to me. I’ve heard plenty of times to “stop acting white” because of the way I spoke and the way I acted and dressed. I still hear it to this day and I don’t think it’s fair. Just because I’m Black, I shouldn’t have to conform to all of the stereotypes and the ways music portrays us to