Anti-miscegenation laws

W.E.B. Du Bois viewed sociological investigation as the solution to racism. He maintained that society looked down on other races because it did not understand. For him, knowledge based on scientific investigation and intelligent conversations were the keys for solving racial issues. He incorporated empirical data and historical information into his theories. During his life, Du Bois focused on the social condition of the colored people and was concerned with the nature and intersection of race…

Ghetto. Most people's first reaction of me is that, “because she is black she is ghetto”. I haven’t said a word to these people ever before or have I said stuff around them. They try to hide what they are saying or even sometimes they don’t even have to say it. The way that they act around me or the way that they say certain things is quite evident on what they think of me. What does being ghetto even mean? Am I a menace? Am I different from everyone else? No i'm not. I'm not even ghetto.…

Identifying with a certain race brings people to a place they can usually belong to; the people around them have the same general values and thoughts. The narrator in ‘The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man’ by James Weldon Johnson belongs to two races. His skin color is that of a white man but his facial features are that of a black man. The narrator grows up with limited views about the African American social views. This leads the narrator to believe he can better the social views of the…

Arike Jacobs The Marrow of Tradition: Lynching and “Justice” When discussing American history it is near impossible to ignore the centuries of racial tension. The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt exposes the social pathology of the American South that has normalized the brutalization of black bodies. Chesnutt writes of various lives both black and white in the events that lead up to a race riot similar to the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. By fictionalizing such an event he is able to…

Raydeen Cruz - Pathos Lucrezia della Pietra - Ethos Lissette Izaguirre – Logos (Lead) Dr. Leiby English 1A – 6422 14 March 2018 TITLE: TO BE DECIDED Alice Walker is an African American woman whose artistic abilities are showcased through her published novels, essays, and poems. One of Walker’s essays written in 1974, exemplifies her search for the origin of her creativity as well as the struggle for freedom of expression that women of color have experienced throughout history. In Alice…

Imagine being a six year old child, and watching brutal racism and injustice growing up, while trying to hold on to your innocence and own opinions. That’s the struggle of Jean Louise Finch, who prefers to go by “Scout.” In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, friend Dill, and brother Jem, must face friends and family turning on them, as father Atticus makes a life changing decision of defending a black man in court in the 1930’s, a time of racial injustice and segregation. Also…

Changes in the mass media production has been a huge factor in reshaping the public’s perceptions towards African Americans. In the article, “Hegemony in Black and White: Interracial Buddy Films and the New Racism” Artz states, such public perceptions have been reinforced, if not developed, by mass media images of real and fictional successful African Americans.1 There has been a “new” racism embodied in the mass media culture that cotes over the actual realities of cultural differences. This…

Black lives matter, in these two films To Kill a Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men we learn that we need to stand up for what we believe in and take action. Atticus is in To Kill a Mockingbird and Juror eight is in 12 angry men and they have the same personalities in their films. The comparison here is Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird and Juror 8 from 12 Angry Men. Juror eight was very determined and compassionate about the case. Juror 8 acted as if he knew he was correct but did not have much…

Alice Walker, in full Alice Malsenior Walker was born on 9th February 1944 in Eatonton Georgia U.S. and is now one of the country’s best-selling writers of literary fiction. Alice walker’s life was life of any African American in 1940s. She was deprived of all the basic amenities and discrimination was rampant all around, which Alice later started expressing through her short stories, novel, poems etc. More than ten million copies of her books are in print." Walker has now become a focal…

The short story, "Desiree's Baby", written by Kate Chopin, set in Louisiana's 1892 slave era, was influenced by the irony of love and prejudices. In the story, Chopin depicts how racial bias overthrows the love a man had for his wife and child. An analysis of the story proves the irony by illustrating judgment on appearances, through racism, and self-destruction. In the beginning, it's ironic that appearances don't seem to matter. At first sight, Armand falls in love with Desiree, without…