American artists

Lauryn Hill is a famous songwriter and poet whose work is balanced between sacred and secular. Even though all of her songs and poems are not about religion they still have strong meanings. In 2002 Lauryn Hill released a song called “The Mystery of Iniquity.” Through this song Ms. Hill expresses how the government attempts to hide the their unfair treatment. During the Era of slavery the unfair and brutal treatment of blacks was obvious, but in modern times the government is now hiding the their…

Famous tattoo artist and tattoo parlour owner, Kat Von D once said: "I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach." I admire the fact that she is courageous enough to display the story of her life on her body for everyone to see. However, what do you think would happen if this famous entrepreneur and say a woman of the same age, with the same amount of experience and the same qualifications were…

also illustrating how the great American hypocrisy affects this transition. A great example of this comes from two paragraphs discussing her father’s first job at a blood bank. The job is temporary, as he’s trying to get official certification to be a doctor in the United States, but he encounters difficulties. One woman is xenophobic to him, “[requesting] to see an “American” doctor” (Balcita 2006, 1) when he comes to her aid. While this is a prime example of American hypocrisy as I explained…

1950s, the music of African American people was the supporting block for the rise of Rock and Roll music. During this time period, racial integration began happening as African Americans began moving from the South to the Northen cities, and within this we began to see cultural integration. However society still greatly held African Americans and whites segregated; and as a result music was greatly segregated as well. It was deemed by society that African American artists had a specific sound to…

Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” Langston Hughes’s essay, “The Negro and the Racial Mountain” explores the “Negro artist,” in which Hughes points out that the “Negro Artist” wishes to be more like white people. Hughes argues that African-American artists don’t know how to express themselves using their own culture, because they believe white people and even black people will not accept their artwork. In the essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” Hughes shows how a black artist…

During the halftime show of Super Bowl 50 a couple of artists had great performances, but one stood out to the public in a negative way. Beyonce’s performance causes a huge debate over social media over racism. Beyonce wore a black leotard with a gold embellished jacket, while her backup dancers sported afros' and black berets (Biography.com). Everyone turned this into a feud because she was apparently supporting the “Black Panther Party” a group formed to stand against whites that…

wasn’t essentially a school but rather than a group of artists that believed the same thing and expressed with different ways. Every artist expressed it with different techniques, ideas, styles, and procedures. Each artist that was involved with the Mexican school created images to express the problems that were presented at the time. Some problems that were occurring are discrimination, dictatorships, and abuses of minorities. African American artists understood these views and collaborated…

upon, there has been a constant struggle for African Americans to sever the ties between their racial identity and the standards set for them by white folk. It wasn’t until the Harlem Renaissance that artists creatively articulated the African American experience through writing and music. During this time, people wrote literature that would appeal to a mixed audience, but individuals such as Langston Hughes made it known that African American artists planned to express their thoughts freely,…

African American female artists define feminism through a different set of eyes then their counterparts. The feminist art movement began as a way to equality in the field of art, yet it had it’s own set of rules. Discrimination within white female art organizations made the African American feminist movement more than just sexism, this disregard made it also about racial stereotypes. In addition, the neglect from the African American male artists forced African American feminist artists to…

From 1910 to 1940 the outburst of creativity among African-Americans occurred in every aspect of art. This cultural movement was termed The New Negro Movement, and later The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem, New York attracted a prosperous and stylish middle class, which sprouted an artistic center. African-Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage; The Harlem Renaissance movement was a period of cultural production from the end of World War I through the onset of the Great Depression.…