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with the most is the black community. Contrary to popular belief in this country, the black community does not exclusively include African Americans, but those who come from African descent such as people from Africa, the United States, Caribbean, and in some cases Europe and Central/South America. From our several shades of brown to our unique culture, this large, widespread group of individuals is my community; we represent the global black discourse community. The black community has…

History has shown us that blacks in society are not equal to white people in this society. We are obviously not as intelligent, not as sophisticated, and not as wealthy as them; that’s what people want us to think about ourselves based on our harsh and cruel past during the times of slavery to the present times. Depending on who individuals ask and the era blacks are born in, one can conclude that being black is a handicap. In the black community we are taught that we are just as smart, elegant…

Pulido said that black people should not be overlooked. The Black people are being illtreated and it is believed that they will not react to their ill-treatment. She said American people believed that Black people in Flint are not able to take action against their ill-treatment. She argues that such presumption is not true. She said that throughout history, black people have always fought for their rights. During the civil rights movement, like during Martin Luther King Jr. days, the black…

Dancing with Death: An Analysis of Black Queer Melodrama In this proposal I will be exploring the use of melodrama, and the theme of death in the films “Paris is Burning” and “Black is… Black Aint”, Both of which reach their climax at the death of central characters in their films. The beginning of my project will consist of defining the aforementioned films as performative films, in doing so, next, I could establish a connection between performative documentary and black queerness. This…

In “Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS,” Cathy Cohen explores “how the concept of “blackness”…is used to demarcate the boundaries of group membership,” and causes a “secondary marginalization” of African American lesbians and gays (2,3). This marginalization is demonstrated in numerous ways but most significantly, in how the black community has been unwilling to respond to the AIDS crisis plaguing its members. This indifference is visible in “the distribution of…

A person’s skin tone is just a color, so why does the color of skin have an effect on the way you're treated? In his novel, Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin introduces you to the real life of African American during slavery days. The African American is not an African American he is actually a white man who changes his skin color with dye to make his skin tone black. The white man is curious about the way African American are being treated and are living. Judging one another shouldn't be…

The Origin of the black church is powerful,elegant,disciplined,and full of fortitude. Not only that, African Americans fought for the creation and development of the black church with protest, dedication, and everything they had. My definition of church is you, rather your a child, an adult, or a minister yourself, the church is always in you. The desire for the black church came from the origination of the master’s church, which deferred in many families. Later after slavery came to an end…

James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins. New York. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 1989.Print. The Black Jacobins (1938), by African -Trinidadian writer C.L.R James is the history of the 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution also known as the French colony of San Domingo. The text centers on an ex-slave named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who became the leader and an advocate of the French Revolution ideals. James emphasizes that Toussaint “presence had that electrifying effect characteristic of great men of…

better person but others too. In his book Black Boy, he helped me empathize and sympathize with him, his family, and the black community through his writing. When Richard Wright was young he went through terrible situations that no child should ever go through. He was almost beaten to death by his mother, discriminated towards by whites, and felt alienation with his own black community.…

In general, the Great Black Migration took place from 1910 -1920 in which blacks were seeking a lifestyle other than the South and the Midwestern, Northern, and Eastern states became the land of opportunities. The Africans had suffered during slavery and segregation and spent their entire life working on plantations, but they realized the opportunity to work elsewhere gave them hope. The African Americans left the South for variety of reasons, firstly the low wages were a major factor in which…