Black British

The Oxford dictionary defines identity as “The characteristics of determining who or what a person or thing is”. The Hebrew word “Galut”, “initially referred to the setting of colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile”, when translated into Greek leads us to the etymology of the term “diaspora”, based on “speiro” (to sow) and the preposition “dia (over)” and in Ancient Greece it referred to “colonization” and “migration.” (Shuval, 2003) Thus, diaspora refers to the…

supremacy through fear, limitation, and degradation. White Americans did not want to chance that slaves would become educated or have the opportunity to unite and initiate a revolt, as the American revolutionaries had just demonstrated against their own British master with success. Slave codes legally degraded slaves and demonstrated white superiority on a personal level through useless laws, such as that which prohibited African Americans from looking any white person in the eye. More useful,…

goes into detail how he hated his job and he was against the corruption and inhumanity that was going on. Until one day an incident happened, which Orwell was called to take care of an aggressive elephant that had escaped and killed “an Indian, a black Dravidian coolie” and Orwell saw what he described as “the real nature of imperialism – the real motives for which despotic governments act.” (Orwell 621) Sometimes we make choices in life, so we are liked and not…

education and amount of wealth, the two groups were bound to partake in conflict. The southern Sudanese were not given autonomy or representation, which prolonged the previous separation ism. The northern Sudanese, or “Arabs” believed that the southern “black Africans” were inferior and needed to be “ethnically cleansed”. This lead civil wars and a massive genocide, leaving almost 6 million people in search of refuge (circa. 20th century). Even after peace has been established, and South Sudan…

“Baa Baa Black Sheep” is a nursery rhyme that many people know of as a kid, but with a more, almost whimsical view, can be turned into something far more sinister. The black sheep giving wool to the person asking says that there are 3 bags of the wool, one for the master, one for the kind and one for the little boy who lives down the lane. At first, one may just overlook that, but the sheer fact that a black sheep has to give a bag of wool to the master can be perceived as a slave giving his…

Old World after the Glorious Revolution, Europeanization of America, the peace treaty of 1714, and the French and Indian War. These large events and many other smaller ones built up these feeling in the colonies. The Americans’ unrest towards the British steadily grew as time went on. The Glorious Revolution was the title of the dethroning of James II, and the crowning of Protestant rules of the Netherlands. When this news reached the colonies, it inspired them to challenge the crown. The…

poor experiences living in England (Timko). In addition, Kipling uses his poems, short stories, and novels to depict “the relationship between the British and India” (Timko). Now in “The Mark of the Beast” and in “The Return of Imray”, we see that the narrative is rooted in the belief of British superiority. There’s just an unstated rule that British men are at the top of the social ladder and anybody else is morally corrupt according to common stereotypes. This is the case with Indians in…

that the government has a duty to protect these rights. After Pontiacs Rebellion in which the British gave the Indians a “gift” of blankets infected with smallpox as the solution to put down the rebellion, the British issued a proclamation forbidding the settlement of anything west of the Appalachian Mountains. This was the beginning of colonial unhappiness and then eventual split of America from the British. Next came many taxes that they colonials saw as “taxation without representation” which…

in the Eastern Cape at the end of the 18th century, con-trolled by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and frequented by British ships on their itinerary to the Far East (see Bowerman 2013: 512; Bowerman 2008b: 164). Due to the military capture of the Netherlands and its oversea possessions by Napoleon, the station, together with the surrounding area, was taken over by the British in 1795 in order to ensure their strategic interests in the region (see Bowerman 2008b: 164; Lass 2002: 108).…

Racial differences have been a polarizing topic since the dawn of time. H. Rider Haggards King Solomon’s Mines was written at a time when racial divide between civilized dynasties such as the British Empire and African tribes were at their peak; and racial differences were often preyed upon by English writers. Haggard does not follow suit with his novel King Solomon’s Mines, the author takes a revolutionary approach to cultural stereotypes by depicting African characters as equals to white…