Afro-Eurasia

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of the introduction, explains the unfair characterization of African Americans in plays prior to playwrights using true historical content in their writing.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…

As a minority, living in a world surrounded by racism and stereotypes can be very difficult to face. Many males believe that to become accepted by society, they must possess typical masculine qualities. According to modern culture these traits include strength, defiance, and assertiveness. These characteristics, however, are misrepresentations of black masculinity, and should not be a factor when defining men. A perfect example of how inequality deeply affects social interaction and developing…

His study documents the process of that development, which he divides into three distinct eras: from 1900 to 1940, from 1941 to 1960, and from 1960 through the civil rights years and beyond. The first period incorporates the years of the great migration of southern blacks to the larger cities of the North and East. Noting that this period also witnessed a diffusion of many of those migrants to outlying areas around those cities, areas that meet the geographical, if not the sociological,…

A Way Around Single stories bring many different people, religions, cultures, and many other things in unfamiliar perspectives. Some of those are bad and some are even worse. The single story is like judging a book by a cover and not even reading it just by the look of the cover. In this case, Brent Staples, an African-American male, in his essay “Just Walk on By” has been repeatedly labeled as intimidating, dangerous, a criminal, and many more things with in his surroundings. The strategies he…

In todays society the media constantly shows and glamorizes the hair of other races outside of African Americans. The term “good hair” is often associated with straight, long and silky hair types. Instead African American women hair is associated with terms like thick, kinky and nappy. These aren’t just terms anymore that are used freely instead, they’ve become very stereotypical and judgmental to the black race. This puts pressure on African American women to feel doubtful of their natural hair…