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black music that offered little or no hope to its audience,” and like the Black Lives Matter movement, continues to cross many dominant, social boundaries. (Forman & Neal, 2012, pg. 486). Since hip hop culture has existed, and become involved with American politics, initiatives have been made by members of this community, referred to as hip hop activists, to “create a sense of community and responsibility, and to define a new praxis…

Malcolm X designs a speech to persuade everyone in the United States that they don’t have the same civil rights that was granted after Martin Luther King’s “American Dream speech”. In the consolidated speech” The Ballot or the Bullet” Malcolm X utilizes repetition, allusion, and ethos along with pathos to express to the United sates that they are living in a terrible country because their main selected white man makes a false promise of having equal rights that is not taking place. Malcolm x…

person in an area or location is an individual. America is the place where people come to discover and be themselves. Individualism is expressed in American Literature. This theme is discovered in: Benjamin Franklin's Moral Perfection, Crèvecoeur's, What Makes an American, and finally Thomas Paine’s Moral Perfection. Paine explains that in order to express themselves they have to break from Britain, motivating people to become an individual country. Crèvecoeur believed and expressed the…

Toomer was written at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, which showcased a series of poems and short stories that revolved around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. During the Harlem Renaissance era, African American culture started to thrive and they became more assimilated with the American culture. The structure of Cane is written in a circular narrative style wherein the novel starts out with stories from the South, rural Georgia, moving to the urban…

Race is a social construct. There is no one gene that makes an individual African American, no one physical trait that classifies an individual as Asian, and no one cultural attribute that can define an individual as Caucasian. However, race is not solely a social construct. It is an attribute that grants certain individuals the privilege of looking through rose colored glasses, while disallowing others to be given glasses at all. These glasses cause the very basis of discrimination and…

religion, and sexual orientation (Schramm-Pate, 2017). During the 19th century, the abolition and suffrage movements excluded African American women from both discussions (hooks, 1981). When equality based on race was discussed, the focus was on African American men (1981). Subsequently, when equality for women was discussed, the focus was on white women (1981). African American…

Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, which was first published in 1999, music writer and hip-hop enthusiast Joan Morgan expresses her deep concern of the negative influence lyrics in rap music have on women and people of the African American community, as stated in her essay, "From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos". Morgan shares her views on the root causes of the prevalence of misogyny in rap music lyrics. Morgan illuminates the hidden causes of the harsh sexism in rap music lyrics…

both songs protesting police brutality against African-Americans in the United States of America. Both Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Kendrick Lamar and N.W.A express their disfavor towards the justice system through their music. Police brutality persists against blacks today this includes: mothers, daughters, fathers, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, sisters, grandmothers, and grandfathers; most unarmed. In 2015, statistics show unarmed African-Americans versus armed whites were five…

The use of the N-word is a highly problematic issue in American society. Its roots come from the word "negro", back from the 1700 and 1800’s when it was most prevalent in our society. The “n” word was used by whites as a racial slur, and to degrade and harm anyone of African descent. In addition, the n word was also mentioned to show the white supremacy and achieve greater status in the American hierarchy. However, today,the n word is a highly taboo topic. Despite it noxious effect, it has been…

During the wartime in the 1900s, African Americans were experiencing discrimination due to white supremacy. Poetry allowed blacks to speak out in society and to show how they felt about their afflictions. In order to express their frustration and emotion as they hoped to bring about change, many of the poems were directed to the whites. Poems like Still I Rise and I, Too, Sing America spoke about black rights and freedom. Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou wanted to influence other citizens to…