Hidden Figures Anthropology

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Hidden Figures is a film, it is the untold story of African-American women that is working in NASA, where they are being discriminate in the film. There is a segregation of bathrooms, staffs, facilities and libraries. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson worked as “human computers”. When Katherine was assigned to help calculate launch and landing trajectories of NASA’s Space task group on east campus, it is the start of the most hard time of her and her groups. The short film does a good try in showing how racism and discrimination, and integrity and teamwork affect and help us in achieving goals. These concepts are showed and conveyed throughout some scenes in the film. There is a scene in the movie that the three negro women are being chased by white man police officer. Katherine’s each days, there are piles of papers in hand, she would ran miles away just to go to the bathroom, because there is no colored bathroom in the company. The colored bathroom has no soap and towels, but the white bathroom is clear and have complete equipment. There is also a scene where the coffee pot that Katherine uses no one would like to touch it. Segregated coffee stations, bathrooms, libraries, underestimated by men and so on. …show more content…

They instead still strive their best and used there intellectual capacity, and not letting anyone on their team being left out. Just like the scene when Dorothy Vaughan teaches herself and the ladies how to program the IBM computer. She went to IBM then try to program it but white men saw her, they try to evict her. But they saw the IBM computers releasing digits. And so she got promoted, assigned to the IBM lab to lead the programming of the computers but she didn’t accept it unless her ladies will go with her and also help her to program the computers. This scene shows the integrity and the teamwork of the

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