American essayists

Black Renaissance or New Negro Movement spoke to a social development among African Americans, generally between the finish of World War I in 1918 and the start of the Great Depression in1929. This Harlem Renaissance focused on African Americans, and the artistic spirit reawakened in African American social life. Historians recall the movement as a scholarly development and literary movement. African Americans amid the 1920s additionally made awesome walks in melodic and visual expressions,…

theatre within a culture I believe that theater’s purpose and responsibility in my culture is a way to overcome the struggle black individuals faced, to demonstrate the creativity of art, and to integrate black playwrights into the main stream of American dramaturgy. To begin, blacks used theater as a monument and empowerment to overcome their struggles. Black theatre flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s. Among these was the Ethiopian Art Theatre, which established…

Well known essayist and writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, wrote an essay, “The Case for Reparations,” that was published in The Atlantic, in 2014, in which the essay describes the hardships the black race has gone through and is still are going through. Coates’ purpose is to inform his readers of the struggle the black race has gone through each day and show why there is a need for reparations. He creates a compassionate tone to lead his readers to fully understand what it is like to grow up black in…

On Necessary Endings Many of the world's most famous novels have controversial endings. Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and Willa Carther's Song of the Lark are two of many. There is no ending, though, that is more controversial than Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn is set during Pre-Civil War and tells the story of a young, uncivilized, white boy named Huckleberry, or Huck Finn. While trying to escape his abusive father, Huck sets out on the…

James Baldwin was an african american novelist and a social critic for the public. He was influenced by many such as Malcolm X, Miles Davis, and Richard Wright. He was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York, and he died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France. When James was a young boy he served as a young minister from the age of 14 through the age of 16. After he graduated he put his college plans on hold to help support the family. He was the oldest of 9 children and grew up…

is an African American woman whose artistic abilities are showcased through her published novels, essays, and poems. One of Walker’s essays written in 1974, exemplifies her search for the origin of her creativity as well as the struggle for freedom of expression that women of color have experienced throughout history. In Alice Walker’s essay titled, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”, the author effectively utilizes ethos, logos, and pathos to convince her female African American audience that…

Author, educator and antiracist essayist, Tim Wise examines in his book, White Like Me Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, his life story of racism, white privilege and whiteness. Wise uses his life experiences as Southern Jewish man and the fight against the establishment that created white privilege, the imperfections of the invisible “golden ticket” of equality, freedom from prejudices and fairness that is bestowed only upon whites, at birth, while “withheld from people of color” (Wise…

their choices every day. Events have occurred, laws have been passed, and wars have even been fought in order to secure safety for men, women, and their nations. However, it does not take away the freedoms of humans. Henry Louis Mencken, American essayist and social critic, believes that the average would sacrifice freedom for safety, which is false. Men and women need to take risks because no risk amounts to no reward. If people never took risks to ensure their freedom, humans would have…

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…

my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…