American artists

Thea is a teenager trying to find her own identity as biracial person. She is half white and half African American girl living in affluent neighborhood .She is attending a privileged high school as sophomore and is part of the school’s mostly white cheerleading team instead of the mostly black dance team. Thea gives a vivid description of what happened after she learned about Tupac’s death in Las Vegas when she got home from cheerleading practice in Friday afternoon in September 1996 in Mill…

Depictions Of African Americans In Films Films and television shows have been portraying African-Americans in unfavorable comparisons compared to their Caucasian counterparts. These depictions reinforce stereotypes associated with the African-Americans. Studies show that these television portrayals influence the attitude of people towards one another. The first stereotype is thuggery. Most of the black male actors are characterized as con-artists, drug dealers, pimps, and other forms of…

including music, writing, and many others that helped African Americans emerge into a virtually white nation. The Harlem Renaissance was the only place of the 20th century where “racial solidarity was equated with social progress, and where the idea of blackness became a commodity in its own right.” . It is questioned however, that if the impact on the emerging African Americans was truly that substantial. Evidently, African Americans were benefited by this movement in all aspects of life,…

Kanye West is an artist whose works can never be replicated. If you start with his first studio album, The College Dropout, West brings an entire new style of rap to the genre of hip hop. This album focused on topics such as consumerism, religion, and family instead of ordinary rap subjects like drugs or crimes. In his song “All Falls Down,” West scrutinizes the problems with college using lyrics like this: “She has no idea what she doin' in college/That major that she majored in don't make no…

Martha Bayles argues that modernity has removed the humanity so essential to early to mid-twentieth century African American music from contemporary music. She furthers the contention that vernacular musicians, specifically those from the African American idioms of blues and jazz, were not primitives. Rather, they were seasoned professionals with an ability to interject soul and passion into their music. However, to make this argument, Bayles takes aim at the post soul music era as a counter…

of Mexican–Americans. It expresses the struggles of people who felt like they have been forcefully silenced but in an ironic twist who worked as a community to represent their race. Chicano art has displayed a rage in society, Identity, unity, racism, social justice, education, sexism and culture. In the exhibit, Beyond the Physical Borders of Aztlan: Chicana and Chicano art as a Palimpsest, one can see all those elements come to play. A group exhibition featuring eight Chicano/a artists by…

whatever situation they were in. This poem was written during Harlem Renaissance, time period where poc poets, artists, and musicians, make their work of art to represent the racial pride. And that 's all this poem is depicting the pride poc had and still will have no matter what. Today everyone sees in the media that someone is being racist whether it be a presidential candidate or an artist. Thinking of…

This Documentary concerning American jazz trumpeter as well as singer Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong's (known as Satchmo or Pops) basic declaration to his initial life is a fun and incredible read. Composed with extraordinary realism, Louis conveyed a rousing story starting from his origination, to his existence with his grandmother, to his initially cherish (which was extremely disagreeable), to his initially separation (which I believe was beneficial for him), to his initially enterprise…

‘Logic’, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter born in Gaithersburg, Maryland on January 22nd,1990. Logic grew up surrounded by discrimination, being born a biracial child to a Caucasian mother and African American father, his childhood was filled with everyone telling him who and who he couldn’t be. Logic became interested in rap music at a young age, releasing his first official mixtape in December of 2010. In Logic’s most recent album ‘Everybody’, He preaches about themes most artists…

Like many people my age, I am an avid listener of music, and rather frequently I look to music (preferably Rap) as a source of guidance or release in times of hardship. There are some infinite songs in the vast realm of music that can perfectly emulate or echo any mood that I might be in, and sometimes the music can actually amplify the feelings I am having like a beam of light though a lens. This power that music potentially holds can be a great tool if used in a constructive and positive sense…