Barkley Hendricks, 1972 painting the “The New London Niggah”, depicts an unnamed African American man looking off in the distance engulfed by a turquoise blue background. Notice his skin color is a rich copper color with distinct light and dark spots throughout. The man has dark, obsidian colored hair that is evenly trimmed. Notice how the artist uses oil on linen canvas technique to give the piece a soft glow and accentuates the man and his physique. Hendrick’s utilizes the appears to be an older gentleman and his beard scraggles in a wild frenzy.…
Scott Collins of the Los Angeles Times wrote this article because ESPN was doing a documentary on Michael Jordan named “Jordan Rides the Bus.” It was a part of the 30/30 series on ESPN, At the time of the article he had just won his third championship. Also, he decided at that time to start a new sport and in the process he stunned the sports world by retiring from basketball. When he did this a lot of people gave reasons why he did it. One of the reasons was that he had gambling debts and also became complacent with basketball.…
Assignment: “The power of hello” summary 1 According to “The power of hello” by Howard White, when he was 10 years old, his mother taught him a simple common courtesy rule that is say “hello” to everyone you meet, and this simple rule has been changed his life, he has become a vice president of a company. He believes that “all people deserve to feel someone acknowledge their presence.” A simple say “hello” principle is a powerful tool that you have never imagine.…
Matt Wray 2006, Not Quite White, is a connecting examination of the progressions by which white trash has been generally created, and changed as a slandering generalization for which Wray coins the expression stigmatype of poor whites. Since revolutionary era, stigmatypes of whites have functioned as powerful representation assets for building up limits of incorporation and segregation. Methodologically, the historiography draws on various resources, including archival reports, writings, and exploratory records. Wray thinks about a few periods in United States history wherein poor whites were the topics of active and open discussion revolutionary and progressive America, the pre-Civil War, and the late nineteenth to mid twentieth century.…
A Letter to Adam J. Banks Dr. Adam J. Banks: I write this letter in order to express to you the impact your article, "Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground," has had on me personally. As someone who identifies as White, it has opened my eyes to how different spaces of the Internet react to the expression of Black culture. This reaction reflects a racism that has gradually been institutionalized within our society for hundreds of years, and is one that Whites should be ashamed of. You have stated that the Internet’s default user is White, and, because of this, the default language is Standard English. Based on these regulations, we reject the use of Black English as if it is not an actual language, as if it exists solely…
Wright first got this idea to write his book from the following Harold Cruse' s book of the Black intellectual: the 1967 treatise The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. Imitatively named, Crisis of the Black Intellectual by W. D. Wright examines the continued nonexistent of the Black intellectual's intelligibility on matters of racism and race. Wright believes that these two topics are different events and should be treated as meaningful matters. Wright argues that the mission of the Black intellectual to translate the Black experience and offer real solutions and ideas to help and strengthen Black community. Wright feels that other black intellectual have failed causing him to have a harsher attitude in his writing.…
Early on in the film, we learn that about 30% of African-American boys do not have their father in their life. While this statistic applies to several of the students we meet, Jamill’s story captured my attention more than the others. His experiences in school clearly demonstrate why having a good role model is vital for everyone, specifically African-American boys. Most teachers are white and female, and while they may be a good role model, they do not provide the representation that these boys require and deserve. They need a role model who they can see themselves in; everyone needs that.…
Tier rankings and narratives are not affected by the following: efforts, however laudable, undertaken exclusively by non-governmental actors in the country general public awareness event that is government-sponsored or otherwise and that lack concrete ties to the prosecution of traffickers, protection of victims, or prevention of trafficking broad-based law enforcement or developmental initiatives All nation states and rational actors are broken down into tiers. Tier 1 is governments of countries that fully comply with the TVPA's minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Tier 2 is governments of countries that do not fully comply with the TVPA's minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance…
Stuff White People like is a blog made in January 2008 by a white Canadian; Christian Lander, a Los Angeles marketing specialist who experienced childhood in Toronto and who accredited from McGill University in Montreal. Lander’s web journal got famous rapidly, enrolling more than 300,000 day by day hits and more than 40 million aggregate hits before the end of September 200.1 For many who viewed the blog experienced it as insulting and bigot. Instead it is not about the interest of every white person, but instead a pattern of upper class consisting of corporate white North American who normally hold a degree in liberal arts.2 As we have learned in this course Lander is more of a humorist rather than an anthropologist, he jokes about…
College Is Not the Key to Success In College is a Waste of Time and Money by Caroline Bird she explains how college was a good place for a few kids that were drawn to their academic work, but now it is stupid for kids to go to college when all they are doing is wasting their time and money. Bird is right, the only reason they go to college is to make their parents happy not for the education part. She explains that young adults in college are sad, mostly because they are just thrown into the real world without knowing what is going to happen next. They do not know what is best for them so they think going to college will help them get a better job in the long run. Most teachers, engineers, and even nurses said they do not use what they…
Over the course of the years that African American Studies has been a separate functioning entity, there have been different ideological and political reasons for why African American studies are needed in institutions of higher education. Scholars such as Nathan Hare, John Henrik Clark, John W. Blassingame and Devere E. Pentony have given their own varied rationales as to why they believe African American Studies is a necessity within these institutions; if it is even one at all. Each of these men have different opinions on this topic but they do share one similar perspective. The historical importance of black people should be taught and made a fundamental component of African American Studies because in institutions of higher education,…
Jack Molchan Mr. Coyle English 415 8 March 2016 A Battle of Colors Come Out, Ye Black and Tans is an Irish song of rebellion. The song’s lyrics refer to the British paramilitary police force officially called the Royal Irish Constabulary Special Reserve. The Black and Tans were to be a force of temporary constables recruited to aid the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War for Independence. Most were former British soldiers in the fields of Flanders during WWI who could not find work after coming home from the war.…
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins. New York. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 1989.Print.…
Mulan presents a very accurate representation of the gender and identity issues that many women in today’s society endure. What many do not understand about gender is that “gender differences are a ‘socialized but relatively fixed identity, organized around biological sex.’” (Eisenberg) The very first song in the movie, “Honor to Us All,” displays the characteristics a woman should have, as fixed by society. More specifically, the song details the characteristics a woman should have in order to attain a husband, as if that is the only goal a woman should have, and this will honor her family.…
Perils of Social Networking Sections III, IV, and V Theodore Roosevelt declared, "Comparison is the thief of joy" (Militaryquotes, 2016). By passively looking at friends’ splendidly sophisticated lives on social networking services, individuals begin to study other’s online highlights. These highlights compared to the personal blooper memories rewound in their own heads can lead to self-loathing. Referencing social networking, Michael J. Bugeja, a professor of communications at Iowa State University of Science and Technology notes “Rather than opening us up to a global community, it is putting us into groups,” (Dailey, 2013, p.220).…