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Throughout history, there have been a number of black public intellectuals. Black Intellectuals adeptly narrate a history of important black thinkers within changing contexts of slavery, race, and modernization, but it also emphasizes a narrow understanding of black intellectualism. “The cohort of black people who call themselves black public intellectuals seem to suggest that they constitute a new social and political identity. But on a closer examination, the role is all too familiar.” (Reed…

definition. The rise of black LGBT rights has caused many people to question their own definition of love, even going to the extent of redefining it. The black community has referred to the Bible as the standard of love. That love is often translated to hate when something goes against people’s beliefs. The weight of Black America’s hatred of the Black LGBT community is actually carried by the political backing throughout the years. Black America’s basis of hatred for the Black LGBT community…

In “Black Looks: Race and Representation,” bell hooks states on page 18, “Given the real life public circumstances wherein black men were murdered/lynched for looking at white womanhood, where the black male gaze was always subject to control and/or punishment by the powerful white Other, the private realm of television screens or dark theaters could unleash the repressed gaze.” After reading this passage and considering our first discussion on the film, Compensation, I tried to think of what it…

Stereotypes are fixed and oversimplified images and ideas of particular people or things. Being a black woman, we tend to encounter the most sexual and racial stereotypes. The remarks that are commonly heard are black women emasculate our men and we are sexually inhibited. Media and society have installed these stereotypes in a majority of our minds. We hear stereotypes so much, that we begin to believe in them. I encountered a great amount of stereotypes, but they were only misjudgments because…

race and gender, black women are the most oppressed and face the most discrimination in our white male dominated society. The struggles of which black women face has been present for centuries and has only recently become a more talked about topic in general discussion. Black women have had a long history of oppression and while at least now the subject is being addressed more many women of color face oppression and discrimination, both racist and sexist, everyday. While black women face a…

The black lives matter movement focuses on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of the police. Demonstrators at the black lives matter movement who chant the phrase “Black Lives Matter” today are fighting for the same rights their ancestors and civil rights activist fought for half a century ago. The organization is not asserting that black lives are seemingly more precious than white lives, or another other for that matter. The organization…

the continent. The Black Death, which is believed to be originated from infectious animals in Central Asia, spread East through the Silk Road and reached city of Caffa. Mongols who were victims to the plague threw dead bodies over the walls of Caffa, which began the spread of disease in Europe. Although its peak was between 1347 and 1351, the Black Death lasted for over a century, hitting different regions in Europe and around the world at different periods of time. The Black Death, or the…

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Book Review As a sociologist, I am continually interested in engaging with social movements that are happening. That interest is what led me to choose From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation to do my book review on. This book analyzes the development of politics in the United States and further argues that even though we have an African American president, America is a racialized society and African Americans face inequality in three prominent…

THE BLACK DEATH Your presence is required at the Church this Saturday, where the King has announced a public enquiry to the great pestilence, whereby Father Rowen and leading scientist Dr. Mark will address our concerns and questions. In the meantime, here is there advice: HOW DID THE BLACK DEATH COME TO OUR HOMES? According to Father Rowen, God is punishing us for our sins. As King Magnus of Sweden explained, "God for the sins of men has struck the world with this great punishment of sudden…

Hill Collins in her essay, Defining Black Feminist Thought, starts with asking who can be called a Black feminist, which turns out to be a highly questionable criteria. She talks about the radical feminists who thinks that only women can be feminists, because it is biologically embedded in them. She also questions if only black women can be black feminists because they have endured the suffering related to the color ‘black’. Collins gives example of little Black girls who became victim of this…