Afro-Asian

Personal Identity Inventory and Reflection During the earlier years of my life, my family and I lived in Rivers State, Nigeria. I lived with my mother my father and my three sisters. I had a childhood that was seemingly perfect; I had loving parents, caring siblings and adorable pets. However, at age of eight, I watched everything changed forever when my father passed away. During my father 's funeral my mum announced that she would be moving with my sister 's and I to America. Most of my mum’s…

No Angel: A Video Analysis Arguably one of the best records on the eminently successful self-titled Beyonce album, the visual for No Angel highlights some of the key factors within this course that allow us to dissect the sophistication of Beyonce as not only a performer, but one of the most successful black females in American culture. No Angel is an intermission within the entire album - which predominately embodies themes of feminism and black sexuality, as well more inconspicuously racism…

In today’s society, social media seems to be a large part of everyone’s’ life. It has the capability to impact as well as distort and influence the way in which a person or circumstance is perceived. In this research paper I am going to take a look at how African American women are depicted within the media, specifically in the Canadian context. African American women make up 16% of the population within Canada [1]. The intent of this research paper is to further understand and explore how…

In Deadline 's online magazine, the article first titled “ Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Casting – About Time or Too Much of a Good Thing” but later edited to “Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Casting” written on March 24, 2015 by Nellie Andreeva, expresses a concern for the growing number of African American representation on televison. Andreeva suggests that the entertainment industry may be reaching a point where they will have to restrict the number of African American shows they air or…

The Fine Line Between Culture and Stereotypes Throughout history African Americans have been portrayed by stereotypes in everyday media and literature. Sandra Hughes-Hassell speaks on the topic of diversifying literature in “Multicultural Young Adult Literature as a Form of Counter-storytelling.” In doing this Hughes-Hassell explains the significance and need for diversity now than ever in media. Hughes- Hassell also voices her opinion on counter-storytelling. Instead of depicting a minority as…

The Bluest Eye fits into the study of the American novel because it tells the story of a group of Americans, who are descendants of slaves, and live in a society where, despite the fact that numerous individuals deny it, the color of their skin determines who they are and what privileges they are entitled to. This specific novel inspects the impact of a kind of seeing that is refracted through the lens of racism by victims of racism themselves. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison recounts the story…

Tyler Perry Productions: An Awkward Perspective of American Life There is something about the quality of Tyler Perry comedies and movies that just resonate the root theatre characteristics. Roots Theatre is a prolific and dynamic theatrical movement in the Caribbean. Root theatre or grass root theatre a form of bawdy comedy filled with sexual innuendo. Perry’s comedies are an impressive exposition of the grass root working class expression of Black American life. Perry’s work is saturated by…

The Beautiful Struggle, written by Tanashi Coates is a memoir published May 6, 2008. Coates’s memoir gives you some insight of the upbringing and maturation of his life. In general the memoir gives you an outlook of how Coates and his siblings were raised including the struggles Coates went through that ultimately created a beautiful future for himself. This memoir also portrays the life of a conscious black family growing up in the 80s. Coates’s blunt style of writing expresses the…

In “The case for Reparations”, the writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the various ways that African Americans have been prevented from attaining the American dream and why there is a strong case for reparations. Coates tells the story of Clyde Ross and his journey to obtain the American Dream and the laws that stopped him from doing so. This reading hits on a lot of topics that we have touched on in class and how they relate to why this so called dream is still just out of reach for most…

Why are people proving the world right by displaying how history repeats itself? It is 2016 and African Americans are still getting treated like they do not belong and have plenty to show for that. The world continues to demonstrate how African Americans, whether a teenager or an adult, are still getting killed. It seems to be hard to admit or say it out loud, but the white murderers are still getting away with it. White people have always put shame to Negros and it still continues, 500 years…