Angela Davis

those were my years, the most informative and influential for me. The music, clothes and “power to the people” fueled me and added to my worldview. My ethnic background is African–American, the new norm since 1988, however, growing up I was Black. Angela Davis, the radical with her great looking afro, who looked so cool so I wanted to be her, not fully understanding what she was about. She stood for Black Power along with Huey Newton and H. Rap Brown and black voices rising with power. I was all…

Vivian Stern’s book “Creating Criminals” is an accurate representation of how the system created criminals and filled prisons. However, there were a few concepts in the book that might have been tougher to understand and are in need of visual aid. Luckily, the documentary “The 13th” is also an accurate representation of the ideas discussed in “Creating Criminals” and provides a different approach to explaining the more complex topics one might have trouble with. After reading “Creating…

1) How does the racist oppression of enslaved Black Women's bodies within the American White Racial Frame transverse through space and time? Racial oppression and viewpoints of black women and their bodies as it relates to racial framing extends to the thoughts, treatment and opinions of how one relates to importance of black women bodies. How are their bodies viewed? Are their bodies valued and sexually appreciated or are they deemed less than because of the desire to devalue and hyper…

Social networking is one stop shopping- it has the ability for people to chat privately, post publicly, give gifts, share pictures, and more. Lisa Davis from Time magazine observes that her busy friend’s “online sociability and offline silence probably have less to do with digital retreating than time management” (Davis). From stay at home moms to important businessmen, people have to deal with the issue of limited amounts of time for social interaction. Often, our society is simply…

In the movie, the 13th filmmaker Ava Duvernay focuses on mass incarceration and racial injustice in the United States. The documentary starts off with the 13th amendment being stated on the screen. She highlights the words “expect as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states”, meaning if you are convicted of a crime you then become a slave again to the united states. My second source is an article written by Fredrick Mckissack…

Men always feel superior or one-step ahead of women because they have always been perceived as strong and intelligent. On the contrary, women, for centuries, are always viewed in a negative manner. I argue against this notion and strongly believe that women should not have to be objectified to be appealing to society. In 2009, an agency in Singapore came up with a Burger King advertising image to promote the chain’s “BK Super Seven Incher”. The model in the fast food image is represented as if…

The answer for the first question from Robert Harris Jr. describe in the “intellectual and institutional development of African American” in four stages. Page 15 to the end of the first chapter. First stage describe the early black literary from 1890 to WWII, where several documentations and examination of black history and culture developed as the work of William Edward Burghardt. Second stage from WWII to Civil Rights. It was mainly white sociological analysis, and it been considered a…

School Uniforms Make a Big Difference School uniforms are an interesting point under discussion in public schools. Even though many schools have already set a rule as requiring school uniforms, students and most parents still not agree. School uniforms are not a negative thing to have. They play a big role in education than most people would think. Without school uniforms, most students treat school as a fashion show. This is the reason why students who enjoy new fashion trends still do not…

“Black Is Beautiful”: Social Politics Surrounding the Afro Research Question: To what extent did the ‘Black-Is-Beautiful’ Movement of the 1960’s promote black expression and further debates regarding ‘natural hair’? Background In order to facilitate an understanding of the perspective of George S. Schuyler, the “skeptical Negro” who “debunks natural hair” and criticizes “Black is Beautiful” in the project’s main Special Collections source, it is first important to establish key information…

Gender has played a distinct role in my life since before I can remember. A gendered upbringing opened my eyes to normative social influence, structural inequality and alternative sexuality. As a boy, I was taught to erase any signs of “femininity” in my demeanour and expected to conceal almost all “effeminate” proclivities. However, after years of introspection and coming to terms with my own sexuality, I discovered A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, books…