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freedom, hard working, and some more. All of these words make up what is known as the American Identity. This American Identity has been built up over time by people’s actions and thoughts. Many advertisements, TV shows, pictures, movies that use the american identity to draw attention. One such advertisement comes from Nike and is called the equality ad. This advertisement uses some of these identities to express their point and connect it to a larger identity. The Nike…

League Quarterback for the San Francisco 49’ers, on August 26, 2016 knelt during the playing of the National Anthem triggering a fierce debate pitting patriotism against the rights granted in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Americans from the poorest to richest, uneducated to academia, veterans to pacifists, the press to politicians engaged in an examination of their own values and views as they deliberated over his action. Did Kapernick’s action represent a peaceful…

upcoming authors and poets the ability to express themselves. After World War I, The Great Migration of approximately half a million African Americans from the rural south to the bustling and promising north gave way to the formation and beginning of the Harlem Renaissance-New Negro era. Within the next ten years more than 750,000 African Americans would follow which increased the black northern population by a stunning amount. This was the start of black Americans discovering and seeking new…

Every culture throughout the world has a different perception of what beauty. Some cultures, such as the African American culture for example, express beauty by showing off wealth and expensive features. In an image captured by C.E. Gomes, there is a Swahili woman posing gracefully with several extravagant accessories, such as multiple necklaces around the neck of the woman, along with a bracelet on each of the woman’s wrists. The clothing style of the Swahili woman is very elegant, with…

For decades, Hip-hop music has been more than just music to the African-American community. It has been a way for them to express and reflect on the struggles they are facing in life. Since 2013, Hip-hop is being greatly influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement, which is an activist movement that fights against the racism and violence towards African-Americans. This movement ignited after horrific cases of police brutality across America towards black teens. Hip-hop artists have…

style and culture are very different from Cameroon. Coming to America has taught me many things along with the importance of being independent. I learned a lot about the America language, with a common language you can communicate well because you express your ideas. My cousins grew up here so it’s easy for them to communicate more efficiently. I remember once, there was a time when I needed some help in mathematics to solve a trapezium diagram, but when I asked her what was the formula she…

the whites would not want to eat a part of the African Americans. Yet, both races are the same. Towards the end of the poem, Hughes states "As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me— although you’re older—and white— and somewhat more free." Although Hughes begins the poem with a tone of confusion, he ends it with a tone of regret. Even if both races are American, there is still an obvious line drawn between the two. African Americans were enslaved for over 250 years then were denied…

same time of each other, and subsequently composed these lyrics around the same time (1925). This is noteworthy because it mirrors the time in which racial disparity was unmistakable. Both artists were battling with their feelings of being African American minorities in a general public of white prevalence. Their lyrics mirror the bad form of prejudice, which is particularly uncovered in Langston Hughes' poem "I, too". Most poems are loaded with imagery and conceptual thoughts, and "I, too" is a…

subject to many different opinions and viewpoints. Although it was said to have economic and societal benefits, it was arguably immoral. Some ways in which it was beneficial are the relationships formed between slave and master, allowed African Americans to intellectually challenge themselves and lived more comfortably in US than African. Slave masters usually participated in sexual activities with female slaves. Usually the outcome of these activities would be a child born of mildly fair skin…

right to express your own opinions, the right to live your live as you please? In American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom written by Hanes Walton Jr., and Robert C. Smith, they answer and discuss these questions as they pertain to African Americans today. They explain how challenging the journey of freedom was and still is, “given their status first as slaves and then as an oppressed racial minority,” (Walton, 92). The book not only highlights African Americans…