African-American literature

writings helped gain a new look to black heritage and introduced ideas that authors before her hadn’t recognized. The Harlem Renaissance was an influential era in the African American community as well as the society as a whole and it continued its impact even after the era dissolved. It was a cultural awakening for the African Americans and arguably the most important of them all. It involved the progression of literary, musical, and visual arts that helped gain a new perspective on the black…

Today, it is certainly normal for conflict and issues too frequently surface in our communities. In the African-American community the rise in disputes and issues have severely emerged. In our modern and past societies, the African-American community is consistently receiving hatred, detestation, and revulsion. According to the media, the African-American community has a wide array of imperfections and is miserably collapsing, which I wholly refute. The belief that all members of the black…

Criminology, 93(4), 827-879. In this publication, Coker addresses the reality of the criminal justice system. In the first section, he discusses the overwhelming empirical evidence of the criminal justice system’s unjust and unequal treatment of African Americans and Latinos. In section two, he criticizes the Court’s response to Armstrong and Bass claims of racially biased prosecution, demonstrating that the “similarly situated” standard is an indeterminate standard: by focusing on one potential…

Ernest J. Gaines, the author of a number of novels and stories such as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson before Dying, Catherine Carmier, Bloodline, In My Father’s House, A Gathering of Old Men, The Sky Is Gray… is a well-known African American writer. Not only is he a writer, Ernest J. Gaines has also gained his fame in the educational field while he worked for several universities and colleges. Louisianan Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933. He is the oldest of the twelve siblings…

Langston Hughes poem Harlem. “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” The play “A Raisin in the Sun”, was also based on Hansberry own experience as a young African-American woman living in a white neighborhood. The play tells the story of a lower-class African-American family that struggles to gain middle-class recognition. In the beginning of the play, the Youngers are waiting for an insurance check of $10,00 from a life insurance policy of the deceased…

The Soul of Black Folk written by W.E.B. Du Bois is a groundbreaking work in the African American literature. In addition, it is also a American classic. In this book Du Bois outlines that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem that lies with the color line.” His outlooks on life hidden behind the veil of race and also the idea of “double-consciousness, just the idea of looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.” Becoming touchstones to think about the idea of race in…

examine differences in participation levels between African-Americans and whites, and that the literature normally neglects to include other types of ethnic minority groups (Leighley and Vedlitz 1999). Leighley and Vedlitz attempt to address these limitations by evaluating five different models of participation to determine whether factors associated with African-American and white participation are also associated with Asian-American and Mexican-American political participants (Leighley and…

Langston Hughes is an African American poet, novelist, playwright and more. He was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. He was raised by his grandmother until he was 13 years old, because his parents divorced when he was still young. He then “moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband”. Eventually they settled in Cleveland, Ohio. His full name is Jame Mercer Langston Hughes. He published his first poetry book in 1926, wich was called “the weary…

way, African-American to African-American relationships can be applied to this research essay as well, especially when relating Sybil’s thoughts and beliefs to the thoughts and actions of those in the Brotherhood. And the significance and relevance that my argument has in comparison to others is that while my argument will touch on white women’s thoughts on black men, my argument will mainly focus on using Invisible Man’s sexual encounter with Sybil as a representation of how European-Americans…

Since the beginning of the Civil War and the 1920’s, African American leaders and writers have shown the different perspective of what is to be Black in a society that neglected African-Americans. African-Americans have been in the middle of a battlefield of discrimination, success, and opportunity among whites. Demonstrated in Literature African-Americans have used the idea of blackness and whiteness to show that African American still suffered racial discrimination after the Civil War.…