American magazines

If you take a moment to look around at billboards, magazines, and your favorite films, you may notice something about the bodies in view. You may notice the races of the bodies, and that most of those bodies are white. The obvious and blatant forms of whitewashing have permeated society so much so that many people no longer even notice that almost every character on their favorite television show--minus that one background role with minimal speaking lines--is white. This is not just a temporary…

these works was partly driven by the growing market of black authored books on Negro topics. African American magazine editors fueled the efforts by organizing literary prize contests that showcased black literary talent. Charles Johnson, an editor of Opportunity Magazine, for instance, organized such events in the liberal Civic Club and thereby announced a horde of new writers of Africa American backgrounds. Alain Locke edited a book that inspired black leaders and authors in which he…

professional athletes. Although, The Associated Press presents the audience with these two colliding views they still make it evident that you should be educated on each side of the spectrum, “racial injustice and police mistreatment of African-Americans has become obscured by the narrower issue of how to act during the anthem. ‘I think we should just have separate and distinct conversations. Because when you merge it into the flag and the anthem, it's lost” (The Associated Press). When…

Ginsberg and Gray (2005) studied images in sports magazines depicting female athletes in judged and non-judged sports in sports media within the frame of Social comparison theory. Social comparison theory revolves around the idea that we decide our social and self-worth based on how we compare to others we identify with (Ginsberg & Gray, 2005). The way in which racial, or even class and gender groups are perceived by society, are manipulated by the way the media frames athletes in photographs.…

accepted in my community. Then, during my teen years I made a trip to China and even there people find“American White Race” to be some sort of an appeasing concept and when I travel to city areas in China, I will see lots of girls trying to copy “white people” hairstyle and even clothing brands that are so popular in the United States.Other thing that I witness through social media, is how African American Women like to permanently make there hair straight, which is obviously not their natural…

should continue in. Scott DeVeaux, a white jazz scholar, and Wynton Marsalis, an African-American jazz musician, have differing viewpoints on how jazz traditions should be continued. For Marsalis, keeping jazz traditions is critical in preserving “true” jazz music. In an interview with Musician magazine, Marsalis makes comments of how “black music [jazz] is no longer black music” and that “our [African-American] vibe is being lost” (“Soul, Craft, and Cultural Hierarchy” 297). Marsalis’s comments…

The era of 1950s reached its summit in the tensions in the acrimonious relationships of African-Americans and whites. The story of Emmett Till is one of them. While some consider the gruesome and painful story of the murder a spark that started the Civil Rights movement, it is not known by many- overlooked or written in meagre details by in textbooks as insignificant. The story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, both which started a hundred days after the murder, are well-known; it…

transition. With Rap’s African American origins, the dilemma of Racism has always been a controversy throughout the genre’s…

In Criteria of Negro Art, Du Bois makes the argument that all art is propaganda and should serve the purpose of bettering and uplifting African Americans. Du Bois believed that black artists should use their work to advocate for their race and to help foster understanding between blacks and whites. Du Bois’ stance on black art being politicized is supported by the depiction of black life and female sexuality in Hurston’s novel; Their Eyes Were Watching God. In Du Bois’ essay, Criteria of…

In “Consider the Lobster,” published in Gourmet magazine in 2004, David Foster Wallace, an American novelist, essayist, and college professor, addresses the ethical considerations that revolve around the annual Maine Lobster Festival- eating lobster. This festival attracts tourist from all over the country to enjoy live music, beauty pageants, cooking competitions, and of course lobster (236). The easiest way to prepare lobster is boiling it in a kettle, and an important detail of this process…