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Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, is about the Problem of middle-class people ideas of beauty on a female of an African American girls. Her novel came about after Morrison talked with someone who wanted to have blue eyes, the novel shows a girl, Pecola Breedlove, who wanted love and to be taken into a world that doesn’t care about people of her race. Author Shelley Wong’s in her Article Transgression as Poesis in The Bluest Eye talks about the different ways in which Morrison wrote her novels…

Do people ever feel like they just want to kill? In The book Native Son, by Richard Wright, tells the story of a Black man named Bigger. The book follows Bigger and unveils the story through his eyes and peers through his thoughts, emotions, and actions. The story takes place in the south side of Chicago where many Black Americans who flee from the south in search of better lives in the north and during the time was when discrimination against African- Americans were an everyday occurance. There…

During the mid twentieth century, racism began to climax in the United States. Tensions of racial differences erupted. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. solidified his position as leader of the African Americans and the struggle for equality. King spoke at many rallies and events. The most notable being his “I Have a Dream” speech. This speech remains one of the most powerful and influential speeches in history. King gave the speech on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. King attracted nearly…

All citizens of the United States, no matter what race they are, have seen the racial discrimination in past U.S. history. Racial pride was a common idea that many African-American spokesmen and women had during the period of segregation. ¨Primer for Blacks “ by Gwendolyn Brooks and “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston are two examples of literature that portray racial pride. Brooks gives insight about the meaning of black pride in poetry . Hurston talk about talks about her…

Claire Denis’ Chocolat in juxtaposition to Frantz Fanon’s concept of colonial violence. 1. Introduction Analyses of the film “Chocolat” by Claire Denis in contrast to Frantz Fanon’s writing “The Fact of Blackness.” The title of the movie Chocolat was derived from a colloquial speech meaning “to be had, to be cheated,” in connotation with “to be black and to be cheated” (cited in Sandars 2001). Chocolat is a movie of endless delicacies, it is about the boundaries set by the racist society. In…

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of mental attitude is a quote from Steve Biko, a man who was significant in world history as well as in Apartheid history. In the movie, Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough, Steve Biko is portrayed in the movie with his associates and what he went through to achieve his goal of Black Consciousness. This movie is historically significant because it shows the atrocities that a white minority committed against the…

Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin. In 1893, this short story was published as “The Father of Desiree’s Baby” in a magazine. Madame Valmonde and Monsieur adopted Desiree for the reason she was found abandoned when she was just a little girl. As she grew older, she found the love of her life, Armand as they had so much love for one another. They had a child, and as soon as they had the baby, the relationship turned out to be bitter and complicated. After a few months passed, Armand and Desiree…

Through the experiences of the black characters in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, the damages of white femininity are exposed. Throughout the book, white girls and white movie stars often embody standards of cleanliness and beauty by containing funkiness (blackness) and creating order. Morrison often substitutes whiteness for cleanliness and demonstrates the dangers of this mixture in how the black female characters witness the supposed beauty and vulnerability of white girls and movie stars.…

Introduction: Womanism is used as a derogatory term particularly for the black woman. Womanism is related to the natural abilities of a woman like bearing children, sex-slaves, inferior to the male, adapts to the new situations easily, care-taking, devoted. The concept of womanism is related to black women and the women of colour as well as the colonial and post-colonial world of women. Womanism shows a kind of acceptance patience and tolerance. Rather than supporting separatism womanism…

Imagine if you were a black family living in the 1950's during the height of racism and the civil rights movement. How difficult would your life be, and what obstacles would have to be overcome? In Raisin in the Sun by Loraine Hansberry, the Youngers family live in a rundown Chicago Black neighborhood and face many challenges throughout their lives, including racial discrimination and sexism. Hansberry's message talks about the importance of achieving dreams, awareness of racial discrimination,…