American Dad!

top and being such an influence to the world that threatens white men specifically so then they use their power and give people a choice. Either you look like us, and get everything you could ever want, or you can be black forever, and not live the American…

Born and raised in India, I often stand out in a group of Americans due to my skin color. Even more so, by different perspectives and the often peculiar ways I think. First, my experience with living in India has often pushed me to see everything to a deeper level. For example, in America, a person is considered poor if he/she doesn't have a job or a place to stay. But he/she might still have enough clothing to survive, such as a pair of pants and shoes. In India however, a person is stamped…

bandleader, vocalist, soloist, film star and humorist. Considered a standout amongst the most powerful specialists in jazz history, he is known for melodies like "Star Dust," "La Via En Rose" and "What a Wonderful World." Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist who was a standout amongst the most powerful figures in jazz music. Well known for his inventive strategies for playing the trumpet and cornet, he was additionally an exceedingly capable vocalist favored with an…

play about an African-American family living in an apartment in Chicago during times of segregation and diversity between the whites and blacks. All the characters in the play have dreams which we all have dreams we strive to achieve but find that we have road blocks trying to achieve them. The character I picked from the play to talk about their dreams and limitations is Beneatha Younger. Beneatha’s biggest dream in the play was to attend college as a young African-American woman. Not only…

One thing that was very notable in 1963 was racism and segregation. In the Watson hometown of Flint, Michigan the Watsons are not particularly affected by racism or prejudice, but once they go south to visit Birmingham, it becomes another story. Dad and Momma often talk about the way the south segregates blacks, but hate does not seem real for Kenny, Byron, and Joey, until they go to Birmingham and experience racism for themselves. After kenny travels to Alabama and witnesses the events of the…

He was free with his smacks and we spent whole afternoons on Punishment Row…” (134). In this scene, Yunior is learning how to be a father from his dad, and the example is set that brute force and aggression are basic parts of how a Dominican man acts, and where his masculinity stems from. Yunior does not have a father figure other than his own actual dad, and the illustration of masculinity here is one that Yunior does not seem to accept, but its evident that some of what his father shows him…

They were coming from Omar’s dad birthday party. We got hit from the back leaving the airport. From the rearview mirror we could see a couple of teenagers in a silver car. Before they jumped out of the car, Omar and Gisela agreed to say that Gisela was driving, that way Omar’s celebratory…

Ruby Bridges is an American activist who attended an all-white elementary school when she was six years old. Many problems were activated when Ruby was given this opportunity like many of the students’ dropping out of school and continual protests. Because of her courage and determination while attending an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ruby Bridges drastically impacted the Civil Rights Movement. Suffering in a car for about five hours, Ruby headed to her new home. The…

Jr., on January 15, 1929, Michael changed his name to Martin. Martin Luther went to school in Georgia where he completed high school at fifteen years old. He got a B.A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse School, a college for African Americans of Atlanta from which both his dad and granddad had graduated. He was chosen president of a predominantly white senior class at Crozer Philosophical Theological school in Pennsylvania. In 1951, Martin was granted the B.D. Martin Luther King signed up for…

Introduction. Is Mass Incarceration anywhere close to being the Old Jim Crow? Michelle Alexander in her book The New Jim Crow argues that US criminal justice system targets African American through the War On Drugs and relates it to the Old Jim Crow. However, in response to her analogy, James Forman, Jr. believes this comparison diminishes the real harm the Old Jim Crow has left in history. In addition, Forman, Jr. argues The New Jim Crow analogy is ignoring violence, obscuring class and…