Afro-Eurasia

With so much production and consumption of a plethora of different forms of media, too many people never need to need for it to be any different than how it is, never have to wish it would change. Too many people, unknowingly, take for granted something another group of people would weep with joy at finding. This is what being represented in the media can feel like. African Americans experience anywhere from negative representation to erasure from television, film, literature, and even the…

What does it mean to be African American or Black? The word “black” has negative atmosphere around it, people say things such as “black” talk, “black” walk etc. but when told they talk or write “black” they will get offended and will change so they don’t want to be labeled. That’s same with colored people they don’t want to be label with the word “black.” Stereotype is a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.…

Invisible Man: The Life of a Black American in Harlem What is in a life? Do we exist as merely a conglomerate of memories and experiences, or are we also defined by the views of others? In The Invisible Man, our narrator finds that all of his experiences - everything that defines him - are informed by the views and manipulations of others. This is obviously a very troubling conclusion, so troubling in fact that the narrator must hide underground with nothing but dim lights and sad music for…

“Black Identity” What defines one as being “black enough?” It is the color of your skin? How nappy your hair is? How street smart are you? The way you talk? What are the qualifications exactly for being “black enough?” As I sat in the cafeteria waiting on the Girl Scouts interesting meeting to start and my mom to arrive, I noticed that the Girls Scouts were divided. There was a Black Girl scouts group and a white Girl Scouts group, instead of being one. I was young back then in Elementary School…

When it comes to history, black history is already talked about at a bare minimum. Black history is disregarded as if it has no importance in American history. So when it comes to being black, which already targets someone as a threat, and gay the history is not taught unless the initiative is taken to obtain that knowledge. History is important to who it affects, so at first look I would say black LGBTQ history is not important, but in the same breath I would say how important African American…

“Justice for Eric Garner”, was the first of many hashtags I have seen that morning. Out of curiosity, I searched up Eric Garner and I clicked on the first video I have seen. The video had a thumbnail with a man with a group of police officers on top of him, from there my heart dropped knowing that it can’t be good. As the video went on and the situation started to escalate my heart was pounding out of fear of what I thought I might see. The moment I have seen the officer get him in a headlock…

Dreams and Deception: Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males’ Struggle in Sports and Education Dreams and Deception by Isabel Ann Dwornik, which was published on January 31, 2017. I chose this book because I felt that people should be more aware of how young black males view a career in sports as a way out of their financial situation. I didn’t want to choose and everyday biography about an athlete. I wanted to read and introduce an everyday problem that doesn’t get as much attention as it…

Lakeita Hudson Jaclyn Harding English Composition 1 21 November 2017 Kneeling for the Anthem Colin Kaepernick, who is a bi-racial man grew up relatively privileged, but felt he was disconnected from his ethnic background. In college Kaepernick joined an all-black fraternity, and was a social activist early on. He became aware of the many challenges that African American men had to endure while in college. When police violence against African American males became spiraling out of control,…

The book Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, was written in letter form to his son about his life of being a black American. Coates throughout the book gives his personal views about different topics that negatively affect the black American race. The book’s purpose was to explain to his son about the troubles that Coates himself had to go through before his son was born and during his life. It is meant to be served as a warning about what is to come to his son’s life. Three main…

W.E.B Du Bois was born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. He was a historian, civil rights activist and a pan-africanist, wanting the bond between the people in the United Sattes of African descent to have a better bond. He wrote a book titled The Souls of Black Folk is a novel written in 1903. In the book he believes one of the biggest problems is the 20th century is the fact that there is a very prevalent color line. He describes when he first encountred racism as a child nd how it has shaped…