Angela Davis

social issues. A couple years later, Huerta was interviewed on La Raza (“The Race”), which was the name the activist like Huerta gave their movement. In the interview Huerta expressed why she has dedicated her life into this mission. In 2003, Gray Davis, California’s governor, appointed Huerta to govern the UC system. By this time, Huerta was one of numerous high profile speakers. In 2004, Dolores Huerta officially established her own foundation to train community organizers to campaign to…

Black Intellectuals have always been caught between the preverbal rock and hard place. They have constantly had the dilemma of establishing their existence not only in the white world, which seeks to diminish and minimize them as mere cases of either affirmative action or charity, but also the Black one as well, who has no conception of the work and the toil that these individuals face day in and day out in their intellectual inquiry into the political, social, and economic workings of our…

Even after slavery ended in the United States, African Americans still felt like they were deprived of their rights. To gain the rights that they knew belonged to them, they started the Civil Rights Movement which Angela Davis says can also be called a “human rights movement.” It was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites including the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free…

First, the Civil Rights Movement began. This movement took place between the years of 1947 and 1968. During the Civil Rights Movement, one of the most famous and influential icons was the Notable Dr. Martin Luther King, who coined the phrase “Non-violent”, a testimony to the black community not to lash out and act radically as they had been treated by the white community, but to instead respond with love and compassion. In the Civil Rights Document that we were required to read for class it says…

The answer is yes, we can change. And we are changing, just, not as drastically as the times we are in are. With the growing technology and forms of communication the media itself has not developed as rapidly as the technology platforms that it uses. Going on to the internet anyone can connect with anyone from almost anywhere. You can have friends all over the world, from different backgrounds and different lifestyles. You can learn about so much from media sites like tumblr or twitter, so…

Everyone knows back then blacks wasn’t treated equally, and they had no rights. The whites was horrible to them and couldn’t do anything that whites did. Some of the whites abused and rape other blacks just for fun. However in 1966 many blacks were treated wrong, however they finally stood up to the whites and created The Black Panther Party for Self Defense. In the 1960’s African Americans that live in North America was still have trouble economically and socially. These urban centres had a…

required one, but as a whole, my views of the world and issues here in our own country has been dramatically changed and challenged. The one thing which I think would greatly contribute to the understanding of students will be spending more time on Angela Davis book on prisons. Other than that, there was no single class or reading which I did not learn something new, useful and practical. I think anyone’s academic career will only be worth if they get more opportunities to expose to real…

Will I ever be able to understand the hurt and pain of living as a colored sister in America? Ntozake Shange , for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf , expresses the obstacles of colored woman living in a world that doesn’t seem to want them. Modern day America pushes them into being outcast and feeling less than whole. Ntozake Shange brilliantly describes the situation of seven colored girls struggles with loneliness, oppression, and sexism in everyday life…

The Politics of Black Feminist Thought For this week, we read Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement,” “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” by Kimberle Crenshaw and the book Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James. Our discussion focuses on feminist thought and intersectionality. The Combahee River Collective’s aim was to combat the oppressions experienced by all women of color and to…

The Politics of Black Hair: A Feminist Analysis of the Construction the Black Female Identity The general consensus amongst most feminist scholars is that beauty standards have not changed much since the 1800s—the construction of female beauty still features a young white woman with large breasts, a small waist, light eyes, and long flowing hair. The act of policing the alteration of Black hair has become one of the most significant ways in which Black people engage in respectability politics.…