Black separatism

When a black or hispanic man walks into a store its not uncommon for a store clerk to follow him through the aisles to make sure that they dont steal anything. When a black man walks down the street people in cars will lock their doors or move away from him as far as possible as he walks.In his article “Black Men and Public Space” Staples illustrates what his life was like within his first year of living in…

color is undefined and we are all black. One must not view Blackness as simply a skin color rather an Ontological Experience. The experience occurred during the middle passage in which it ceased being the African American people, but a division of humane and inhumane; with the African now deemed as the black body. In this episode of humanity an entire people were Dis-identified, Disenfranchised, and dis-embodied. “My mother bore me in the southern wild, and I am black, but O! My soul is white;…

bountiful history from which they originated. W.E.B Du Bois, in writing The Souls of Black Folk draws a powerful comparison between this categorical miseducation that was necessary to perpetuate slavery in America, and the further miseducation that was necessary to keep blacks is their lower societal positions even after the abolition of slavery. There was no social mobility, because the systems that were created to elevate black society were really…

and our role as a nation on the global stage. Only one issue, however, has led to civil war in our country– the issue of slavery. When wealthy landowners began buying and importing African Americans as slaves, they created a stark division between blacks and whites. A bloody war was fought to settle the matter, yet we still face issues of race today. Discrimination and racism have divided our nation more than any other, throughout our history, and are problems we are still attempting to solve.…

Black Citizen Racism can scream—segregation, Jim Crow laws, hate crimes, and discrimination—but racism can also whisper. Claiming instead the private, personal space as its territory, microaggressions describe the various ways in which racism infiltrates everyday interactions in a minimized, rather than maximal, form. These manifest as subtly charged statements, impulsive reactions generated towards one’s race before realizing the implications and apologizing. While the apology may be received,…

plowed driveway leading to a small two level cottage splattered with colorful lights and icy silt. Three figures slowly open their doors and step onto the frosty gravel. The first is a man no older than forty. White stubble splatters his face and his black hair moves in the frosty winds, his height resembles a small spruce tree that is newly planted, tall but lanky. As the wind blows snow into his chiseled face his blue eyes shine in contrast.…

John Wideman’s Our Time tells the story of two brothers and the differences between them. John, the author and primary narrator, is a successful author and teacher. The primary focus of the story his brother Robert, who is younger by ten years. Robert or “Robby”, spent much of his young adult life on the streets addicted to heroin until being jailed for a robbery. Wideman illustrates how differently each brother develop using place. Much of the story is set in the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of…

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Navigating White Silence, Fear, Denial and Privilege. The final shot of Poussey Washington’s lifeless face sent chills down my spine. Her cold body—the end result of a blonde haired, brown-eyed white woman using her white privilege to maintain a monopoly on her illegal panty-selling business in the hit Netflix’s series Orange Is the New Black (OITNB). This final shot exemplifies the current issues in our county concerning law enforcement, white privilege, and black lives.…

For example, Ida mae grew up in a small town where a white man would come through weekly and start firing of shots at any black man, woman, or child that he came across. This went on and on and the government never persecuted him for anything. However, when the tables flipped and an African American was accused of the slightest wrong, for example opening the door for a white…

set out to confirm the existence of cosmopolitan canopies, “settings that offer a respite from the lingering tensions of urban life and an opportunity for diverse peoples to come together” (Anderson xiv). While his experience of Philadelphia as a black man is different than mine as a white woman, I believe cosmopolitan canopies can be identified by any person if they are looking for one. Anderson 's definition of a cosmopolitan canopy is broad enough that nearly all of the heavily populated…