American Pie

two names in order to get by in society. Throughout my life, I have been called numerous stereotypical names, except my own name, “Rebecca.” To be frank, they have not been the best nicknames in the world. Yet I still am striving to hold both my American and Korean names and identities close. My first name is Rebecca; but also to some people, “Ling Ling,” “Ching Chang Chong,” “Fortune Cookie,” “Chinese Germs,” “Mulan,” “Chink,” “Asian Girl” and many more. I’ve come to a realization that…

see how Lorde’s agrees wholehearted to this view being an African American, feminist, lesbian. The ability to feel liberated by someone of the same sex and it be reciprocated is something that I believe everyone wants in some form. Her ability to express this was so uplifting. I feel empowered to help those in the LGBTQ community with this simple…

Justice, gentleman? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this” (8). In this statement he called Jefferson a hog, and to Jefferson and the rest of the African American community the term hog is a very degrading word. The term hog is not only a degrading word, but it also symbolizes the way African Americans were treated as possessions instead of humans. This statement causes Jefferson to mentally and physically dehumanize himself just as his attorney did, and now he does…

epitome of contemporary African American literature, Coates presents a difficult concept to grasp called “The Dream.” The Dream is the illusion of the American Dream. This essay argues that African Americans…

Pulitzer winner for her writing, Toni Morrison has become a major modern Afro American women novelists of American literature. In her first book The Bluest Eyes we get a personal look into the destructive effects of race, gender or class on an individual and mostly with a woman in a white, male dominated society that is America in the early 1940s’ Ohio. These themes are the epicenter and concerns of three pre-teen African American girls, Pecola, Claudia and Frieda. There are many instances, we…

Race: Black Muslim Women Race is a term used to identify ourselves with. For some, it comes with hatred and discrimination to their specific racial group of people. There is a background of race and explanations of the origin of race hatred. In my opinion, I think Black Muslim women are the most interrogated people of America. Being a Black Muslim woman comes with misogyny for being a female, racism for being black, and islamophobia for being a Muslim. Since the beginning of time, women have…

was written during the time of President Barack Obama. It states, that as United States was celebrating the election of Barack Obama, majority of black men were still locked behind bars. (Alexander, 25). Her main point is that by targeting African American men for minor crimes, we as a nation and the U.S. criminal justice functions to be a system of racial control. Not a system of crime control. An article by Ashley Nellis (2016), mentions the reason behind prison overcrowding is also due to…

exhibition. The reason why, is because this is where the first roots of African-Americans were planted. This exhibition shows the story of slavery and freedom in the history of America. It begins in the 15th century, along Africa and Europe, coming all the way over to the United States. This exhibition ends with the civil war, and the reconstruction of a nation. I was very shocked to see in how much the African-American struggled, from their inception to the Caribbean/Americas, til even present…

America, the black body, and the American Dream. Coates work is reflective of the work of other intersectional feminist scholars like Julia Sudbury, Jewel Woods, and Allan Johnson The systemic oppression of blacks through the school-to-prison pipeline and a broken criminal justice system make it impossible for white and black boys to be raised the same. The black body lives in constant fear of being plundered by this broken institution of “justice.” The American Dream is a fantasy for black…

Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I chose to interview one of my friends, Mira. Mira is half Japanese and half French. She was born in Paris but lived most of her life in Tokyo where she attended a school with an American education…