Afro-Latin American

segregation was outlawed, African-Americans generally still faced more hardships compared to any other group in the US. Many people look down and think of this group in such a negative way. There are various reasons including media portrayal and perceptions which depict many African-Americans as felons. This stigma is not only visible with the common citizen, it can be seen in the eyes of law enforcement. It is evident that a disproportionate number of African-American citizens end up behind…

the loss of identity. The body is no longer a physical body but a commodity. “The dream” of white picket fences and racial equality does not exist for the Blacks. The dream is merely a façade created to hide the woes of the average working class Americans. “Good intentions are a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the…

The book Mojo workin’: The old African American Hoodoo system was written by Katrina Hazzard-Donald. Hazzard-Donald (2013) is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Rutgers University-Camden. Hazzard-Donald’s book explored the African American cultural tradition of hoodoo. Subsequently, Hazzard-Donald argued that the tradition of hoodoo emerged from a range of different African ethnic cultures brought together as a result of enslavement during the Trans…

Alice Walker is the author of many great works. Her short-story “Everyday Use” is a strong work based on the themes of heritage, tradition, and sisterhood. With this book, she shows the struggle of African-Americans within themselves. Heritage is the most important theme in this story. In the beginning paragraphs, readers learn that Mama and Maggie lived in a more rural area. Mama explains in the first paragraph that her front yard felt like an extension to her living-room, which means she took…

Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye, reflects the feminist theory throughout the novel. Characters narrate the novel from different point of views to help understand the story of the protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, and the hardships of growing up as a young black girl. The eleven-year-old fails to get help because of the suffering from other characters, which eventually contributes to her fate. The feminist theory is presented by Pecola’s desire to be beautiful, black women resisting…

Since the Africans were brought to this country, they have faced oppression and isolation by white Americans. W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a memoir titled The Souls of Black Folk to represent his concerns about the oppression of African Americans and their education. This book provides insight to African Americans’ culture, values and religion and in providing insight to those aspects, he also takes the time to speak about the color-line. The color-line or as he often refers, “the Veil” is an imaginary…

Within the two books of "Black Like Me" and "The Help", two characters seem to really stick out. Not sure if this because they are main characters or not. The two characters John Howard Griffin and Aibileen Clark exemplify the themes of race, society and class, and man versus society through their steadfast changes throughout the book and their developing relationships with other characters. Race is a big theme with these two characters in their books. John Griffin's whole story relates back to…

Argumentative Essay Oh, she’s black, she’ll have it easy. What a great misconception. Being an African American woman that your days age and Society has become one of one of the most difficult things imaginable. if you have not lived at one, you really have no gall to say anything. There are so many ideas and depictions of what you can deal can't do or will choose to do. From the assumption that you're just going to have a bunch of children and live on welfare to that you're going to be laying…

The younger generation of Negro writers during the New Negro Arts Movement created a space in which Their Eyes Were Watching God could exist within. Alain Locke (1885-1954) and Langston Hughes both advocated for the inclusion of art that was not solely political, or at least not solely adhering to the positive, respectability aspects of political theory. Locke, himself, found his voice to be in inherent opposition to the stringent views of Du Bois and went on to transcend the restraints of…

wanted to tell her audience the truth about the black people in that time period and teach about their life. she wanted to teach the audience whet the black people did on a day to day basis. She wanted her audiences to understand that the African American race is just as complicated and similar as other races of people are. She wants the audiences that experience the play first hand and those that read about the play in the future to realize that each race and group of people is more similar…