African American writers

American streets revolutionized in the 1920's as the number of automobiles soared from 6 million to 27 million. (Hoover) In 1980, “87.2 percent of American households owned one or more motor vehicles, 51.5 percent owned more than one, and fully 95 percent of domestic car sales were for replacement. Americans have become truly auto-dependent.” (History)But though automobile ownership is virtually universal…

healthcare racial inequalities of African Americans. Cultural differences, and racial conscious and unconscious are factors that contribute to the gap in African American health. Therefore, collecting only medical data and physician behaviors towards certain diagnosis, is not enough to determine or conclude that there aren’t any deep rooted unforeseen components that play into racialist thinking by physicians. Despite the alarming writings of African Americans dying of heart disease, strokes,…

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents, James Hughes and Carrie Langston soon separated after his birth. His father moved to Mexico and his mother moved around during his youth. Hughes was raised primarily by his grandmother, Mary, until she died in his teens. Hughes then went to live with his mother and they moved to several cities, but eventually were settled in Cleveland, Ohio. While in Cleveland, Hughes began to write poetry and was also…

a torch bearer of blacks in America highlights the pervasive silence that surrounds race in nineteenth-century canonical literature. Observing the ways in which the “Africanist” African-American presence pervades this literature, Morrison has called for an investigation of the ways in which whiteness operates in American canonical literature. For Hook, Morrison through her female black characters actually focuses on the pervasive power of love and self care to raise a feminism that would address…

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…

bottom of hardships.” These wise words were given to us by W.E.B Bois the author of one of the passages listed. I feel as if this quote couldn’t be more fitting for the idea of racism in America at the time. Bois presented the idea of how the African American were presented as bad people that rarely were looked upon for good deeds. The next article is telling a story about how a black boy was treated while working with white people. Lastly the article is from the perspective of a white man…

contemporary African American Literature. Angelou is well known for "I know why the Caged Bird Sings", one of her volumes of poetry published in 1970. Her poetry highlights her triumph over social obstacles and finding her identity. Angelou was not always a poet. She was a singer, performer, and civil rights activist. "Angelou's poems are a continuum of mood and emotion. They go from the excitement of love to outrage over racial injustice, from the pride of blackness and African American…

regarding her family 's situation. The use of strong female characters in this story shows the strength of women in this time period and how they are straying from the values of the decade beforehand. The writers of this movie also used Tillie to show female empowerment as an African American women she is a very important role in the film but they use her in a peculiar way. She is against the marriage between races and becomes this mother figure for Joey and warns john not to hurt her because…

and eventually made him, “one of the leading voices in the Civil Rights Movement” (”James Baldwin Biography”). His essays, short stories, poems, novels, and screenplays broke all sorts of barriers on racial issues at the time. Like many other African-Americans of his time, Baldwin was racially harassed throughout most of his life, but he chose to release his frustration towards this discrimination on paper. His hatred towards this segregation of races became so great, that he left the United…

campus is a necessity, it is not sufficient in and of itself or promoting growth. In 1990 the Ford Foundation took a step towards this diversification and released a statement saying, “To broaden the range of cultural and intellectual diversity in American higher education, the Foundation this year launched the Campus Diversity Initiative (CDI)” (Bernstein, 2015). The purpose of these initiatives is to seek to introduce diverse, multicultural points of view and opinions into the core curricula.…