American pioneer

Vera Stark: A Pioneer in the Battle of Racial Prejudice in Hollywood Underrepresentation of African Americans in both theatre and film remains a prevalent point of strife in our society, and has been since the emergence of these entertainment forms. Additionally, the few roles that are available to people of color are often extremely stereotypical, such as the ‘black best friend’ the ‘thugs’ or, in earlier entertainment, ‘the maid/servant’ or ‘mamie’. Playwright Lynn Nottage highlights the…

Race relations between Asian Americans and Black Americans have always been rocky. In order to understand the historical relationship between Asian and Black Americans, it is important to understand the intersectionality of hip hop and how it’s shifted through history. There is so much racial tension between Asian and Black people and hip hop was used both to widen and close the gap between the two groups. Hip-hop for both Asian and Black people has been used as an act of rebellion, but despite…

their own areas labeled for them. Whether it was dining in at a restaurant, using the bathroom, going to a football game; you name it. So Mr. Willis McCall was the sheriff at the time and he was known for his cruel and unkind actions to the African Americans (Blacks).…

Throughout this semester, the class learned about horrifying injustices brought upon black women during slavery. Black women’s bodies were not their own and could be used at anytime by the white slave masters. Furthermore, even after the abolition of slavery black women continued to suffer at the hands of white men. While they were physically free under the law, white men continued to rape and abuse black women because of the perpetual mentality that white community was better than the black.…

is when something is considered professional. Howard University a private historically black university and even though the majority of people that attend are african american, they accept all races. 3rd- On the 3rd of March, 1836, Jefferson Long was born. Jefferson Long was a politician from Georgia. He is the second African American to be sworn into the US house of representatives. 4th- On March 4th, 1875, Blanche Bruce was elected the first black senator to serve a full…

Great Britain and the colonists had always been confounding. The pioneers were loyal supporters of King George on a mission to explore the new found land and bring glory and fame to Britain. The pioneers were met by the native people of America, also known as Native Americans or Indians. Some kept peaceful relationships with the Native Americans and others sought the path of war. The English settlers were impeding upon the Native Americans’ land and this ultimately concluded to a war between the…

Although African Americans are often overlooked when students are learning about the American West, African Americans are a significant component of the history of the American West. Bradford Luckingham claims in his book, Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992, that African Americans have lived in the West since the beginning of Spanish settlement and were among the founders of Los Angeles. However, the impact that…

Couple in the cage was a performance, filmed into a documentary of artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco. Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican–American performance and installation artist and writer, as well as an activist and educator. His works revolves around the issue of the north–south border and US–Mexican interactions. Gómez-Peña is deemed as a pioneer of performance art, experimental radio, video and installation art. His works often involve dense texts, a collaboration with another…

One of the first accounts of Brutalism was given by architectural critic Reyner Banham in his seminal essay titled New Brutalism published in the Architectural Review in 1955, Banham’s conception of New Brutalism was both a movement in the sense of futurism and a style. Banham’s etymology of the term New Brutalism is clarified through his complex and contradictory explanation of Brutalism as both a movement and style. Banham did articulate clearly three underlying rules which are its core…

this period of time that continue to influence the world we live in today. The Enlightenment period, bought upon by German writers after a catastrophic war, Thirty Years’ War2, criticisms that went against the normality of wars. There were many pioneers/philosophers to the Enlightenment periods with modernizations of politics, science, philosophies and math. This was a movement that occurred in all areas of the world; England, France, Germany, and America, with scholars…