Afro-Eurasia

This paper analyzes the Instagram posts of Serena Williams. I will focus on how she represents herself on her Instagram. Especially, I will focus on how to deal with her representation as a black woman. Looking through her Instagram, it is obvious that she implicitly emphasizes on her blackness and womanhood in her post. Instagram is one of the popular SNS (Social Networking Services) in the world. We can post a picture with a comment and hashtag on the Instagram. Because we need to choose…

W.E.B.’s The Souls of Black Folk acts as one of the most profound and important pieces of literature in the contexts of American racial tensions and sociology. This pioneering book provides invaluable insight into the struggles of African-Americans in the early twentieth century through the means of individual essays divided into chapters. In these essays, Du Bois brings to center stage a spectrum of issues that African Americans faced in everyday life, such as the color-line, “The Veil,” and…

It is easy to criticize DuVernay for deliberately making critical factual errors in Selma before understanding her background and beliefs as a director. DuVernay is an African American filmmaker who during her college education majored in African American studies. DuVernay not only had a personal connection to the context of the film as an African American woman, but also to the general region of Selma. DuVernay frequently vacationed in Lowndes county, a township next to Selma as child. Hence…

One of the most important identities to me is my blackness. As far back as I can remember I knew I was black and was very aware of the meaning of that. I went to a majority-minority middle, and high school, I live in an all-black neighborhood and, of course, I live in an all black household. For most of my life, I have mostly been around black people and people of color, so just going to school with majority white people is definitely a different experience. Race has shaped my life because…

The song, ‘‘Welcome to The Colored Section” by Donnie Williams, is a song that expresses the true feelings and the true meaning of hardship through the eyes of African-Americans. The purpose of this song is to tell the audience of what it was like being an African American, and the difficulties black people had to struggle or fight for to end in as so called American History today. The elements work together to push the meaning because in the song the singer has tone and prospective to get you…

Throughout A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines, the author explores the characters’ evolving relationships with God and spirituality as black people living in pious Louisiana in the late 1940s. Two characters, Grant Wiggins and Reverend Ambrose, develop a rivalry based on their opposite interpretations of spirituality. Gaines uses these characters in order to comment on the nature of religion, especially as many events in the novel call characters to question and grow in their…

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…