African-American music

Dreams do Come True in New Orleans The Princess and the Frog was realeased in 2009, is a comedy and is set in the city of New Orleans in the 1920s. Tiana, a strong African-American girl, who comes from a humble family wants to accomplish her dad’s dreams, of owning a restaurant. Sadly, her dad dies when she is little. Trying to accomplish her dad’s dreams, Tiana works double shifts and saves every single penny she gains during adolescence. When she is about to achieve her objective of buying a…

Yanjie Hong Amy Murray Twyning Reading Poetry Essay 2 4/23/2015 The Complexities of identity in Terrance Hayes’s Poems Essentially, the emblematic portrayal of the African American male persona in Terrance Hayes poems is evidence of the experiences that people of color have in their routine lives. Evidently, his interview in the New York Times where lengthy conversations ensue, details emerge of how problematic his life in college and Japan was due to his dark skin (Burt). Arguably, his…

The roaring twenties were the decade of modernization. Women had been fighting for years to gain respect and equality. World War I had ended two years prior, this was the time for a change. Women in the roaring twenties rejected all aspects of the Victorian age and were the driving force for the gain of women’s rights and modernization. The 1920’s were an indication the Victorian age was over. “Unemployment was down, from 4,270,000 in 1921 to a little over two million in 1927. The general level…

Sarah finds herself in. She is torn between two cultures; the African and European. She cannot accept her blackness, and can’t find acceptance in the white society. Wilkerson explains that this struggle is “metaphorical and symptomatic of ambiguous state of people who were created out the clash of African and European cultures” (71). Kennedy's characters represent the selection between the two cultures; the European and the African. They represent the conflict between them. They are…

Nativity scene that I observed had one African American. The African American man was one of the Wisemen. The holy family is usually depicted with porcelain white skin and other Anglo-Saxon features, which consists of blue eyes and rosy cheeks. The Bible is unclear about the complexion of Jesus, the holy family, the magi, and the shepherds. Having a Nativity scene with mainly light-skinned characters sends the message…

In the first verse of the song “Strange Fruit”, Allen jumps right into the subject of brutality and the way in which how African American people were treated at that time. “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root” (2) is a sentence that makes reference to a time in the 1930’s when African American people suffered from lynching because of the color of their skin. Because there is blood on the root, this brings up the idea that this has gone on for a long time…

Racism is a battle African Americans have been fighting since the beginning of time and will continue to fight until the end of time. After centuries of enslavement, innocent lives being taken and countless sit-ins we continue to face the same opposition. The same devil just in a different form, because even though African Americans have acquired freedom we are still slaves to a racially structured society. Just look at Michael Brown, who is one of the many young African Americans whose life…

gun when dispatchers received a notice that there was a minor that was pointing a toy gun at people, but in the end, he was seen and treated as a violent criminal. His simple characteristics of being tall for his age, but more importantly an African American male, led him to being seen as a dangerous criminal. This narrative frame of black communities being inherently dangerous is important because it is a situation that perpetuates a stereotype of black communities. Politicians often use this…

superior than the other. Racial Discrimination has been going on for many years and is expressed through many ways. The arts have been significant in the voice of the oppressed and have been at the forefront of many movements. Throughout history African Americans have overcome and dealt with much tragedy, after all of their fight to be equal, they are still being discriminated against by much of America. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the fathers of the civil rights movement, once said to…

One of my hero’s that I admire would be an American rapper, record producer and an actor. His name is Tupac Amaru Shakur. Also known as, 2pac. He was born June 16 1971 in East Harlem, New York City. He died on September 13 1996 in Las Vegas, NV. The cause of his death was murder. On September 7th 1996, Tupac was leaving a boxing event in Las Vegas when he was shot multiple times. Six days later, he passed away on the 25th of September. To me, my hero is someone who will never give up, even when…