Blackface

In this paper I will discuss and go into great depth on Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon and the postdramatic theatre elements that are represented in both of them. Muller’s statement in Steegmans, After Postdramatic Theatre refers to a crisis of drama, which consists of the apparent inability to convey the complexity of the modern world. It’s that the problems of the present exceeds the representational capacity of the situational dramatic art. When we look at…

The book titled Campus Life by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, explains how college has changed drastically along the years, in class we have discussed when and why college was originally created. Then fast-forwarding to when woman started assimilating into college, and finally when colleges became diverse allowing for all individuals to attend regardless of their ethnic background, or sex (Horowitz, 1987); which leads us to where we are currently. Over the course of years people starting to feel as…

Many key events took place during the Jim Crow era. In evaluating these events and their effects it is helpful to first understand what Jim Crow laws are. In the 1830s a man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white entertainer performed a character in blackface. When in character Rice performed a popular act with dancing and singing as a slave, named Jim Crow. In 1890 Jim Crow laws were implemented. Under these laws many were victim to segregation between Caucasian and African Americans. This took…

The era that Michelangelo Antonioni belonged to was a time where filmmaking was considered as a type of art that consisted of contemporary ideas and techniques just like any other fine art. During the 1960s, big name filmmakers worldwide began to experiment with more formal techniques as well as adopted new methods to narrate, which basically extended the perceptions of cinema for audiences in various ways. Like many other up-to-date artists and filmmakers at the time, Antonioni felt like he…

Twain 's deceptive spread of racial stereotypes through his depiction of Jim and other blacks in Huckleberry Finn makes link to his use of "nigger" and has raised loud criticism from -Huckleberry Finn critics. Like the perception "nigger," Twain 's portrayal of blacks, Jim in particular, shows the tendency of the white culture to treat blacks with qualities that negate their humanity and refer to them as inferior. Critics mock parts that represent blacks as childish, less smart than whites,…

America is equal and America is free: is a saying I have heard many times throughout my life as a student. In elementary school, we learned about the American Revolution and the fight for freedom and equality against the British. We learned about the Civil War and the freedom of slaves. We learned about the Industrial Revolution and how people immigrated over to America from Europe and found a better life. We learned about the Civil Rights movement and how the abolishment or Jim Crow lead to the…

Culture is the essence of human interaction. It is how the world expresses the passions, inspirations, and purposes of differing lifestyles, when simple conversation won’t suffice. We exchange cultures for a mutual understanding of how those of the same race perceive the world in an estranged point of view; the extensive evolvement humans have made throughout different environments, behaviors, and beliefs. Although culture is what unifies the global society, it also divides. It shares the human…

To quote Atticus Finch, the sapient attorney of Harper Lee’s classic, To Kill A Mockingbird, and his belief in justice that is indiscriminate, “...in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal” (274). However, this ideal presumes that the law, those very words on which a court is built, is fair—but it was not so. In the dark times of Atticus Finch, indiscriminate justice was absent from the legislation, and often laws were built specifically to…

At the turn of the 19th century, America was faced with vast changes; Black Americans in particular were faced with a world that was "seemingly" better than before, but in reality they were still faced with the daily struggle of being black in America. In Paul Laurence Dunbar 's, "We Wear The Mask, the uses of symbolism, wordplay and various themes express the deception of the thought that black Americans were content with their social, legal, and psychological circumstances at the turn of the…

novel: “Whites are free to 172 dictatorship and democracy partake of these pleasures by parading as negros lubolos and, since the 1980s, even as vedettes; then at the end of the day (or, more accurately, the night), they are also free to remove their blackface makeup and costumes and return to their everyday identities as educated, employed, respectable citizens of…