Afro-Eurasia

Alice Walker, in full Alice Malsenior Walker was born on 9th February 1944 in Eatonton Georgia U.S. and is now one of the country’s best-selling writers of literary fiction. Alice walker’s life was life of any African American in 1940s. She was deprived of all the basic amenities and discrimination was rampant all around, which Alice later started expressing through her short stories, novel, poems etc. More than ten million copies of her books are in print." Walker has now become a focal…

Black Boy is an account of a young African-American boy’s thoughts and obstacles growing up in the South, whose family lives in poverty and experience constant hunger. The main character in the story is Richard Wright, who is born in 1908. Richard opens the book with a description of himself as a four-year-old boy in Natchez Mississippi, and his family’s later move to Memphis. It describes his rebellious attitude against his parents and his days spent on the streets while his mother is at work.…

The Bluest Eye Literary Analysis For some being a child is not as simple as just growing up, and for young black people in the 1940’s this cannot be any closer to the truth. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a novel following the life of Pecola, a young black girl growing up during The Great Depression in Lorain, Ohio. In this coming of age story, Pecola experiences the harmful effects of beauty standards, racism, trauma, and rape. Pecola, along with other characters in the novel such as…

James Baldwin was an African American novelist born in 1924, and passed away in 1987. He wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions, during an important time of history when these topics were finally being more widely discussed. Though he is an African-American writer, one may think Baldwin specifically wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions in solely America, but he actually travels over the world to tackle these issues. One of his works that covers those issues abroad is A…

In Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison addresses the recurring themes and faults of racial portrayal in American literature. A substantial amount of this analysis has to do with the concept of the racial imaginary and racial canon. Using specific examples from ‘classic’ American authors, the author breaks apart the underpinnings of allegories around race. Morrison asserts that a contributing part of racism is poor portrayals of people of color in literature. This literary criticism crafts complex…

The mistreatment of African Americans by American Society motivated John Steinbeck to write the novella, Of Mice and Men. As shown in the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, he writes many cultural references to African Americans in the 1930's. There is one character called Crooks who is an African American. In the book Crooks is referred to as a Nigger, in the 1930's this word was considered to be not offensive but in modern times this word is very offensive. In this book, John…

Introduction: The issue of White-supermacy has been the major problem in the history of United States.It is started from the Era of slavery,the most sensitive Era for African-Americans.Superiority and inferiority are the two opposite words that always has been used together.As if one is superior in rank,colour,nation then he considers others inferior because of his rank and race.And the one who is superior governs over the inferior or suppressed.In America,White community govern over the Black…

Thesis: Get Out’s use of color, acting, directing, and script help further the narrative of racial tension via the use of socioeconomic status. There is a subtle use of the colors blue and white throughout Get Out as a representation of the dichotomy of the two races: blue symbolizes African Americans and their plight with racism, while white symbolizes control over another person or race. Blue is seen throughout the movie as clothes on the protagonist, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya)…

This essay will examine the use of poetry in expressing a poet’s ideology, how this is demonstrated in their work and the poet’s methods of communicating their world views to a reader. The work of Langston Hughes reflected the lives of the African Americans around him during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, and also the history that they all shared in Africa. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of revival for traditional African culture and a push for racial equality across in the community of…

What is an African man? There are so many different types of men; but what is an African man? Different philosophers and poets define an African man in many different ways. An African man is basically known to be a hunter, strong, powerful and to understand nature more than anything. An African man has endurance, patience, pride, love and hate at the same time. These qualities become visible and evident in an African man’s everyday life, depending on the environment and the situation at that…