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Katrina took place in 2005 , resulting in the deaths of approximately 1800 people, mostly impacting the African American community (Kim Ann Zimmerman 2015). Lennard also gives examples lyrics of the song, “ I like my baby hair, with baby hair and afros” and “ I just might be a black Bill Gates in the making” to show not only black pride but to empower other African Americans to be happy with themselves. She uses sarcasm by saying that Beyonce’s “Attack” was a simple reference to American police…

African American Equality Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Outline 1. Introduction 2. African American Equality 3. Conclusion 4. Works Cited African American Equality Introduction Like African-American culture, African American literature got spurred by the harsh realities of life that the Black community went through in North America. During these times, Whites subjected Blacks to severe pressures which inadvertently eroded their African…

Literary Criticism: the Signifying Monkey. In the introduction, Gates illustrates that this book is an attempt “to identify the theory of the criticism, which is inscribed within the black vernacular tradition and that in turn informs the shape of the Afro-American literary tradition” (xix). He justifies the reason from writing the Signifying Monkey as he explains that his desire “to allow the black tradition to speak for itself about its nature and various functions, rather than to read it, or…

SHAPING THE INDIVIDUAL In his book In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Phillipe Bourgois presents to us several characters which will help him observe life in East Harlem and to proceed with his study. The characters which will be brought forward in this essay, are Ray, Caesar, and Primo. Bourgeois lived for several years among Puerto Ricans in East Harlem in order to render his research accurate. By bonding with the individuals he meets through his research, they open up to him…

The trends surrounding African American women’s hair have been ongoing since times of slavery. Since then there has also been much controversy over style, appropriation and what is and is not appropriate in the work place. As many women can understand and relate, your hair is a part of your identity. The same goes for black women but it’s even much more than that. As a black woman, our hair is also a large part of our culture and throughout time we have seen many changes in regards to it.…

History of Cosmetology “ I Am a Woman who came from cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the wash tub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I was promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair and goods preparations…… I have built my own factory on my own ground.” This quote is from, Madam CJ Walker.This demonstrates she started from the bottom and made it up to the top where no one thought she could be. Cosmetology is the professional skin…

I’m a small, curly, half black, half Mexican women who doesn’t conform to gender norms. It’s not because I look down upon people who dress up and wear make-up, I appreciate the hard work that many people go through to look fabulous. The whole makeup business isn’t really for me though, and while I’m not super proud of how I look, I’m not really willing to put in the extra effort to put on make-up or shave the hair on my legs every morning. For the paper, I adhered to gender norm and I decided…

same education background as a man and will still get paid less than him. Nina Simone showed how women were looked upon. Hair played a huge role in the 60s and still does today. Having knotted hair was not good, there were so many controversies on the Afro. White men tend to target black women to rape them, they did it to feel dominant or try and break the woman. Nina Simone showed the different generations of women: the slaved woman, the woman who could have been born in slavery or close to it,…

Abstract The present study attempts to analyses selected works of the two eminent American authors on whom very little research work seems to have been undertaken through the angle of Black aesthetics. Richard Wright and Toni Morrison novelists are an effort to bring out the central theme of the Black American experience in an unjust society like America. Compare and contrast the ways that these two American writers have conceived the relationship between racial oppression (black) and the…

The two example I will provide is the Black community in Nicaragua and the Africans in Swedish. Bluefield, Nicaragua is a predominate black, Afro-Caribbean community. Although their color is black they all connect their ancestors to the Caribbean or Africa. Gordon and Anderson in their article “Toward an Ethnography of Diasporic Identification” start off by asking the question of who is black…