Black Friday

including the mortal sins of rape and murder. In Richard Wright’s Native Son, these two crimes are brought to the forefront, committed by 20-year-old black protagonist Bigger Thomas. By the end of Fear, Bigger has murdered the young white Mary Dalton, and halfway through Flight, Bigger has added another crime, the rape and murder of Bessie Thomas, his black girlfriend. The white world in the story is utterly shocked that something so abhorrent has occurred in their town, and they want nothing…

Racism and its lingering effects have long been debated by people of color as the root of evil. Many times if it doesn’t affect you directly; you may not understand the significance of racism. I believe that I hold some bias due to my race and social class. Denial is thoughts believed and what one perceives as real based on one’s own thoughts. One white American may believe in denial while another may not. It would be absurd to assume that everyone in some way has not heard another express their…

The Younger’s family are all black: Walter Lee Younger the chauffeur, Beneatha Younger who is twenty years old and goes to college to become a doctor, Lena Younger is Walter and Beneatha’s mother, Ruth Younger is Walter’s wife and Travis Younger mother, and Travis Younger is the youngest…

“The most important problem in America is drug abuse.”- Richard Nixon The House I Live In is an eye-opening documentary that informs people of what the war on drugs truly is. The black community has been the initial target of the war on drugs (drugs and drug abuse). This is something that is very hard for me to understand because the white community are the ones who brought the drugs over in the first place, and minorities are made to suffer. Also, higher powers put so much focus on people, that…

their suitors. This relation between a woman and man results in a proper marriage, allowing separate spheres to exist in which women have a place where children grow up to be respectable citizens. Jacob tries to instill anger in the North by showing black people are more inclined to be like a northerner than any other person in the South but was limited by slavery. The institution of slavery allows a lecherous master to dictate whom a slave may marry, which ruins the institution of marriage. The…

Attacks on domestic spaces and women’s bodies “drew on the gendered imagery to represent blackness as subordination and vice and whiteness as authority and power” (p. 180→Houses). Blacks were removed from communities of respectable citizens through the violence (p. 182→Houses). Despite emancipation and formal legal equality, violence conveyed a symbolism of the assailants’ visions for southern society’s hierarchical racial order (181→Houses). White men claimed mastery over their households,…

encouraged solidarity, but blacks did not take one method to cope or end antiblack racism. White women enjoyed new opportunities and privileges and took more roles in the public eye. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham stated that “categories of analysis- race, gender, class and sexuality- are interrelated and overlapping”.Black women are also thought of as having certain class and sexual identities while white women allegedly possess a different class and sexual identity. In this era many black women…

What Adrian Peterson Reveals about the Black vs. White child-rearing.” Does following a stricter disciplinary action plan, help save African American children from state violence (Government)? Cooper and Coates would both agree the answer is no, so is it time for African Americans to change their profound ways of traditional physical disciplinary actions, to a more lenient form as the white community…

cultural and already imposed notions of white perfection to the limit that they hate themselves for not being up to society`s standards. The best character that Morrison utilized to depict these outcomes is Pecola Breedlove, a passive, eleven-year old, black girl whose lack of parental guidance and self-hatred lead her to be absorbed by the imposed notions of beauty. Pecola…

American society and culture before it was politically popular to question norms. Also, the play was groundbreaking in establishing black theatre as a part of the universal American culture.(umich.edu)…