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Review of the Literature A recent study conducted by Education Trust (2016) found that over the past decade, graduation rates for African American students improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for white students. However, because completion rates of African American students progressed at a slower and lower rate the graduation gap has grown. Of the 232 institutions studied 68.5 percent of the institutions had an African American student graduation rate increase, while 31.5 percent of…

These three boys beat the odds! The Authors Drs. George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sampson Davis with Sharon M. Draper wrote the memoir called We Beat The Streets. George, Rameck, and Sampson did things that their surroundings weren’t “capable” of doing or didn’t have the willingness to do it. They all became doctors. They faced many challenges and heard many sides and thoughts on life and they put it together to have their own lives. This memoir was created to show that any black or African…

A stereotype defined by oxford dictionary is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Stereotypes are most-commonly ingrained beliefs that a person cannot help but follow in his or her day-to-day life. Everyone has stereotypes. One common stereotype that most people tend to reject out of guilt or society’s morals is that black men, specifically, can be threatening to women. Brent Staples, an African American writer, has personally and…

The book written by Richard Wright was centred around the racial discrimination in the country. The protagonist of Native Son is Bigger Thomas, a disillusioned twenty-year-old black man, who grew up in Chicago in the 1920s. Richard Wright focuses on the maltreatment and ugly stereotypical behavior which was used to label blacks. Bigger Thomas is a troubled young man trying to live up to the expectations of his household. He comes from an extremely poor family and is ashamed of his background. He…

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) is set in Chicago’s Southside and many social issues of the 1950’s are the themes of this play. This essay is about one of the major themes in the play, racism, and how the Younger family, a poor black family, experienced and resisted the racism in their society. The members of the Younger family had to deal with discrimination in the housing industry, their home and their jobs. In, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family bought a house in a…

Masculinity in The Pursuit of Happyness The Pursuit of Happyness, produced by Columbia Pictures, is a movie based on a true story of an African-American man named Chris Gardner, a multi-millionaire investor and a motivational speaker. Gardner is not only a persistent, hard-working, assertive and confident man, but also a responsible father, who played both roles as a single parent. Thus, he is a clear example to prove that the negative perspectives about African-American men are wrong. As people…

Conrad’s niggers are, in their feeble and shadowy existential realities, alluded to in The Hollow Men. In a sense, black activities and intellectuals from the Harlem ghetto resemble them. They are human beings full of hunger, disease and fear which situate their condition not in ancient Africa or Europe but America as limbo itself. Having experienced acculturation or alienation, the black ex-slaves become neither African nor European in outlook. Their sad king or leader named Doris (“I” in this…

Throughout the civil rights movement, African Americans received no respect for decades and decades, no matter if you were old or young, man or a woman. Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspirational speaker sticking up for what was right. While dealing with the same disrespect all Negroes were receiving. During the civil rights movement King spoke out his hopes and wishes for the world, hoping to change the ways of many. By using appeals to logic and emotion, it helped people understand Kings work…

Lesson Learnt In step with the poem, “The Lesson” by Toni Bambara, we were given the subject of appearance, class, equality, disgrace and schooling. Narrated within the individual by using a young African Yankee woman known as Sylvia, the reader shortly realizes from the beginning of the tale that Bambara is also exploring the topic of appearance. Miss Moore out of all the characters in the tale stands out more from all. Now, not completely will she have college schooling but Sylvia thinks that…

A Critique on the Identity and Racial Discrimination in Toni Morrison Novels Ms. Yamuna J.KirubaSharmila Research Scholar Assistant Professor Department of English Department of English Vels University, Chennai – 600 117 Vels University,Chennai –600 117 yamuna.s076@gmail.com kiru.sharmi@gmail.com Abstract This paper attempts to focus on how the black people in America suffered for getting their identity and to overcome…