Afro-Brazilian

Wayne bibi de Tefnut: An introduction to an Afrocentric Pedagogy for incarcerated and formally incarcerated African-American and African-descent women The context uses of “wayne bibi” is the notion of “being” “becoming” and “belonging” found in the African centered discourse. The context uses of “Tefnut” is derived from the daughter who is named as MAAT found within the Coffin Text. Traditional Kemet law MA’AT Ancient Kemet encompassed the laws of MA'AT: The Declarations of Innocence and…

How does the film portray the period and events? Jackie Robinson is an example of an aspiring individual who had great potential and experience to thrive in his dream; however, his dreams are forced to stall because of the prejudice and violence he faces for being black. Brian Helgeland’s 42 (2013) portrays what other African Americans were forced to undergo using Jackie Robinson's treatment and experiences. These events reflect the ideologies during the Civil Rights Movement. Robinson…

“ Passing” by Nella Larsen explores racial identity and the internal struggle of biracial women in the 1920’s. This was a time of burgeoning artistry and pride in the African American community, but was also still a great time of discrimination. There two women faced the ultimate decision of which culture they would be a part of. This changed their social standings, lifestyles, and in the end, quality of life. The 1920’s were a time of racism and discrimination. Many African American’s…

America’s prison system has been utilized to repress the rights and of African Americans through different policies enacted by presidents, or clauses within the Constitution. Black males are twelve times more likely to be incarcerated than white males for drug offenses despite rates of drug use being virtually the same between the two races (Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests). Different policies like mandatory minimums and “three strikes and you’re out” disproportionately affected black…

1. The most surprising I found for the article is: “It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment.” (1) Different color of people could not even have…

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF “BLACK” CULTURE IN POPULAR CULTURE Introduction These days, “we live in a world of media communication where we can travel great distances and across centuries, all in the comfort of our own living rooms (p. 4).” Even though it is ignorant to assume that everyone consume the media as it is, we cannot deny the fact that the portrayals of the African American culture or the Black culture has a great influence on the social construction of the culture itself. This leads to…

The Codification of Soul in African-derived Culture Synopsis The Codification of Soul In African -Derived Dance Culture is a chapter four in the book Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance. Benita breaks down what I would consider the dancers calling. Brown also discusses a style of dance that is a tradition in black culture , but slowly dissipated ; Shouting. Both subjects covered are deeply connected to each other and should be treated with care, just as brown…

Historically blacks in America have always been faced with the difficult task of having to fight in order to be taken seriously in many different facets; the introduction of Reading Contemporary African American Drama takes an in-depth look at the evolution of African Americans in the arts and literature. Trudier Harris, the author of the introduction, explains the unfair characterization of African Americans in plays prior to playwrights using true historical content in their writing. Earlier…

The film Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored was directed by Tim Reid who is an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs. The film re-creates the world of a black community in the rural South in the years from 1946 to 1962, as hardline segregation gradually fell to the assault of the civil rights movement. A young boy known Cliff is living under the care of Al Freeman Jr. as great-grandfather Poppa and Paula Kelly as…

The writer uses the image of blackness to convey conflicting ideas. Blackness thought out the story is presented as erasure and annihilation, but on the other hand blackness is also presented as an image of rebirth and renewal. “Blackness” probes blackness, or darkness, as a postcolonial racialized identity category and metaphysical definition. The narrative voice exchanges from being to nonbeing, from self to others, from subjects to protests. "Blackness" investigates the alterrains of…