Black Spot

because he is a Black male and I am a White male. Both of us came from very different backgrounds and somehow still managed to end up at the same university, with similar interests. In my interview with Dequone I asked him some pretty hard questions and he was very willing to answer them to the best of his ability. Before the conversation with my roommate I felt like I knew almost everything about Dequone, but after talking to him on a deeper level, I now know how he feels to be a Black male in…

Being black is really the best gift I’ve received from God. I’m not sure what my life would be like if I was not. I am proud of my heritage and where my ancestors come from. It excites me to see black people come together and share things that we can almost all relate to. However, it hurts to see the sugar coated lies about the history of my ancestors, to automatically be put in a box full of stereotypes, to have to watch little girls look up to white woman to see what beauty is, to be treated…

response would most likely consist of either a race or gender. They would say something like “blacks” or “females,” but they would never think to put the two groups together. Black women have had their “identity socialized out of existence” more than any other group due to the way society has politically and economically constructed categories or groups (hooks, b). According to bell hooks, black women are in a “double bind,” meaning that regardless of whether they stand for sexism or racism…

The Bubonic Plague was a deadly disease that killed at least twenty-five million people and devastated Europe from the 1300’s to the early 1700’s. The Bubonic Plague is also known as the Black Plague and the Black Death. The Bubonic Plague is a disease that was very deadly. Many religious people thought the disease was an act of God. They thought that God was punishing them for the sins they have committed in life. Others thought it was an act of witches and Jews. This disease lasted for over…

are: “The Black Cat”and “The Masque of the Red Death”. In “The Black Cat” the narrator slowly goes insane by his pet cat. He soon tried to kill it and ended up killing his wife instead. The narrator decided to hide his wife’s body in an old cellar wall that was under his house. He got caught by the police due to a loud scream that came from the wall where the body was, turns out…

Bell Hooks, “Gangsta Culture” In the excerpt "Gangsta Culture" from Bell Hooks' We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004). Her purpose is to inform us about the lure of the streets and why such a variety of dark men fall salve to it. As an expert and distinguished professor of English, Hook structures her text in a very effective manner. The general structure delineates that it is a concept of activities of dark men, mind state and reasoning for those activities. Hook…

In Poe’s “The Black Cat”, the narrator mentioned that the wife made frequent allusion “which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise” (Poe). It is a superstitious belief that a black cat is a sign of bad omen, bad luck, witchcraft, death, etc. The man also named his cat Pluto, which means god of the underworld in Greek mythology. The man believes that the mishaps that happened to him was probably due to the superstitious belief of having a black cat. One night, the man came home drunk…

describes his everyday experiences with it. He frequently discusses the inequality that he has been faced with throughout his writing. He chooses to identify with blacks because he understands their struggle and wanted to encourage them to embrace their skin color as beautiful. Though faced with tough…

herself to God.” There is no logical way, within the context of the verse, to support his first answer with Psalm 68:31. Yes, the verse mentions a people group emerging from Cush, now Ethiopia, to unite under Gods’ banner but it doesn’t show that ‘Black Men’ are from Cush. A whole part of Sewalls’ argument rested on his statement that “the Blackmores are…

In the 1930s, racial segregation has been with white and black people all their lives. Until now, where all people of color are all identical, doing the precise things, drinking from matching water fountains, going to a matching school, sharing duplicate buses, being friends with one another, and sharing a meal from the same table. We have somewhat evolved from that time frame. We grew knowing what was fair and unfair to the people throughout this country no matter what the color of your skin is…