Black Spot

welcomed to many people, including those involved in the Great Migration from 1910, to the 1970’s. Many citizens of color were affected by monstrous prejudice, and abuse, from the white supremacy in the southern states, which influenced sanguine, black citizens to migrate to the northern states in hopes of pursuing their dreams, and escaping the depression of the south. Many of these citizens moved to Harlem, New York, which sparked the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Cultural and social…

storyline, the image of the “black-box” is mentioned approximately 20 times. This box plays quite a large role in the plot of the story in that the pieces of paper inside of it ultimately determines the fate of one the villager’s lives. Whichever individual draws the sheet of paper from the black box with the black dot on is plagued with the fate of the lottery. This villager is sentenced to death by means of stoning by the hands of the remaining townspeople. The “black-box” is representative of…

in the states. One of the more prestigious racial riots is the one that blew up in Ferguson, Missouri, after a young black man, Michael Brown, was killed by a white police officer after he stole from a convenience store and appeared to have posed a threat to the officer as he approached. Even after all attempts to end racism from the 1800’s to the…

Why is discrimination used in day to day life? Why do people want to bring people down by deliberately hurting or disadvantaging someone based on a characteristic they can’t help? Discrimination comes in all shapes and forms; it obvious anything that is an attribute of a group can be used as an excuse to treat them badly. Racism is the discrimination of someone based on their race, language or skin colour. This can be closely linked to xenophobia. This could be the cause of many serious problems…

generalization of Blacks and their culture has been in American society for a long time, may it have been positive or negative, Blacks and their impact in advertising has dated back to colonial years of America and still makes an impact today.” Looking at brands and ads from the 1800s to now, do Blacks feel offended? From blackface, to racial terms, offensive nicknames (Jiggaboo, Mandingo, Jezebel, Mammy & etc), stereotypes and images, advertising had held a negative light on Blacks for years,…

During the narrator’s last morning at Mary’s house in chapter 15 of the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, he spots and is enraged by a racist coin bank that is in his room. He smashes the bank against a pipe and unsuccessfully attempts to dispose of the pieces of the coin bank twice before giving up and taking them with him to his next destination. To me, the coin bank and the fact that narrator can’t dispose of it symbolizes both racist stereotypes and their relatively permanent nature.…

“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…

since. In 2008, eleven years after dating, Beyonce and rapper and music producer Jay-Z married. Three years later, Beyonce became pregnant with their daughter, Blue Ivy. Since Beyonce’s rise to fame in the early 2000’s, she has a pretty permanent spot in the pop genre. Once Beyonce releases a new single or an album, expect for it to be on the radio, bought on iTunes or a combination because…

on the cover of Time Magazine and made a huge societal controversy. The photographer and editor creates an image that will grasp the viewers undivided attention. Between 1968 and 2015 nothing has changed the photo conveys an unstated message that black lives truly matter, nothing has changed over many years, and there may be different views of the image and the advertisement as a whole that the editor expect for the viewers to think about. The advertisement is against an elitist view…

There is substantial evidence of racial and gender disparity in the economy of America. This inequality is actually caused by discriminatory treatment that exists in the labor market. It is however important to define the term discrimination at the first place to have a greater understanding of discrimination of African American women at the workplace. The word discrimination according to the simpler definition refers to the treatment of people on the basis of race and ethnicity that is unequal…