Black Spot

2016 there was a stabbing in Cazenovia, a student of ethnic diversity was stabbed behind subway around 2am. On the 9th, a racially slurred, inappropriate, and hurtful Craigslist response was posted online that went viral within the community and many black people expressed they have not felt safe since. The following day, the campus held a dialogue circle to discuss race and diversity, sadly the majority of people who attended were ethnic minorities and the few white people in attendance were…

of a troublesome black culture that plagues Chicago. Wright makes readers sympathize with Bigger by portraying prejudice, the blindness of others, and a sense of entrapment. The first way Wright makes readers sympathize with Bigger is with prejudice. Many characters in native son treat Bigger unfairly…

“it achieves presence in opposition of whiteness” (Thompson 19). The character’s wild kinky hair reflects Sarah’s confused state of mind. Both the black hair and black skin are signifiers of race. Through the play all the characters lose their hairs as a sign of “anxiety, guilt, shame and madness” (Kolin 29). It also refers to Sarah’s loss of her black heritage. Sarah also projects her life instinct in the image of two male selves, Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ. In fact, “Sarah’s…

In and around the 1920’s, black culture was rising in popularity, but racial equality was not a common theme in the majority of societies. In the 1919 poem, “If We Must Die,” author Claude McKay displays the significant social gap between blacks and whites. McKay does this by comparing man and they way they fight with animals as well as using separate pronouns for blacks and whites throughout the poem. Claude McKay demonstrates the distinct social gap between blacks and whites by comparing…

also known as W.E.B Dubois was born on February 23rd 1868 in Great Barrington Massachusetts. While growing up in the most African town. He identified himself as a “mulatto”. A mulatto means “a person with mixed black and white ancestry, especially a person with only one white parent and one black parent”. He attended a school with white children and studied with white teachers. In 1885 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee. After earning his bachelor’s degree at Fisk, he attended Harvard University.…

the “invisible man’s” place in society during Ellison’s time. I believe that Ellison was simply creating a metaphor for the way society treated black individuals in the 1900’s. Both examples (The Invisible Man and Lordship and…

maybe he felt that they didn't deserve to be there, even though that doesn't give him the right to be so disrespectful I can understand where he's coming from. At first when all the black people joined my school I was very racist towards them and believed that they did not deserve a spot on the team because they were black and had lower power than me, I soon learned that they are equal to us and should be treated the same as everyone else. I still think this was wrong and should not have…

The Black Death was considered as one of the most devastating pandemics in world history. It began in Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The plague killed 75 millions of people and killed two thirds of Europe’s population. People were getting affected by the disease and dying each day. The aftermath let the civilians to began to question which led to the Renaissance and the Church losing its power. The Black Death originated from China and inner Asia, the Black Death decimated the…

evidence that shows clearly that Caucasians often have the upperhand is from What happens to college diversity if you kill affirmative action? by Tanzina Vega. “White families have a median wealth of about $134,000, compared to Hispanics at $13,900 and blacks at $11,000.” Although it is true this may not be completely accurate, it does a good job of summing up studies that have been done that shows about how much of an advantage the majority race can have. A major reason against this argument is…

Edgar Allen Poe is often regarded as a master of building suspense. Poe develops suspense in “The Black Cat” through the following three events: When the narrator cuts out Pluto’s eye, when the narrator finds another black cat that looks almost exactly like Pluto, when the white patch on the second black cat’s chest forms into a hangman’s noose. One of the major turn point’s in the story is when the narrator cuts out Pluto’s eye. It gives the readers a feel that this isn’t the same person…