Black hole

what they envisioned and wanted for future generations. During this same period, Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. The book follows one specific person, an unnamed black man, to address the issues that African Americans faced. Ellison highlights the social injustice in America while presenting the character’s efforts to reveal how blacks try to become visible, survive, and achieve…

There is a bridge. On the other side of the bridge is prosperity and wisdom. However, the bridge has holes in it. These holes will cause me to fall and no one knows where the fall will lead. I’m standing in the beginning of the bridge and I see hands in the place of the holes. These hands are the hands of my supporters, loved ones, and role models. The hands won’t let me fall and neither will I let myself fall. My grandmother recently told me that oppression is the inability to learn, and be…

contract forms for black “servants” and relied on vagrancy laws to pressure freedmen to sign labor contracts. Southern Black Codes would provide another source of exertion for white employers by a way of apprenticeship. The code would authorize courts to apprentice black children, against their will, to an employer up until the age of 18 for females and 21 for males. Carolina’s Black Code accepted a racially divide in their court system for all criminal and civil cases involving a black…

and their sexual identities by characterizing both Nel and Sula as a protagonist. Beginning in the year 1919, the novel highlights moments of adversity and various experiences that have influenced these women’s lives in Medallion, Ohio, a confined black community. As the story follows the friendship of the two women who seemed inseparable, their relationship is corrupted by the roles women are expected to fulfill in their patriarchal society. Sula is confident of her sexuality and does not…

with “bullet holes”. The painting is medium sized at 23 ¼ inch by 19 ¼ inch. Carol Summer’s piece titled “Kill for Peace” is a dark, naturalistic work of art that depicts a family’s position in a war between violence and peace. Some figures an observer could see in the painting “Kill for Peace” are a Hispanic woman and two small Hispanic male children barefoot and kneeling to the ground. The woman is holding one of the small boys in her arms. You also see a…

stands for humans whose personal identity is unseen. Blindness refers to people who do not see them as individuals. Thus, Ellison explores racism in an emotional way and not a superficial way. One also discovers in the novel that it is not only the blacks…

as men, and they were even neglected the rights to attend certain types of schools. All of this highlights society’s values and the profiling that continues to occur in today’s time. Black women are the largest race of females that we incarcerate, and I believe this is due to the focus that we put on this group. Black women have been noted to be looked down…

(group of hippies with no real family relation) believed a race war was imminent and they must stock up and hide out in an underground world only accessible via a hole underneath the desert while the war took its course. They believed blacks would win the war, but would be unable to run the world due to lack of experience. Once the blacks gave up, the Manson Family would come out from hiding and save the world from chaos…

Racism is still prevalent today because of the holes left in the laws and amendments formed in the Reconstruction era. These holes represent the racial inequalities left unaccounted for, that would eventually lead to the Civil Rights Movement. The Ku Klux Klan was mainly responsible for keeping racism alive since the Civil War. Immediately after African American people gained civil rights, the Klan formed to “keep blacks subordinate,” (McAndrew). Since that time, the KKK has carried…

John Hatcher’s “The Black Death: The intimate story of a Village in Crisis, 1345-1350”, Book Review With the innovation of John Hatcher’s, The Black Death: The intimate story of a Village in Crisis, 1345-1350, he attempts to present an invented view of an English village during the pestilence of 1349. Using the archaeological process of theories as a basis, Hatcher’s micro historical approach to the black plague is quite important based on the exploration of new theories that adhere to the…