Blackface

Examination 4 During the early and mid-twentieth century, America was viewed as a militant powerhouse to be reckoned with. Although America was respected for its military by foreign countries, the country faced its own racial struggles. These struggles were seen and ridiculed by foreign countries, especially by Russia. Porgy and Bess was sent to Russia to not only regulate the communist agenda but also to show Russia and the world that America took care of the blacks in its country. Although…

“The Bondwoman’s Narrative” is a heart-touching, incredibly real life, autobiography that teaches readers many aspects of the life of a slave. The three most prominent include the amount of oppression slaves face as well as the fear that they live in, the difficulty maintaining an escape, and the role faith plays in a slave’s life. Hannah is a preeminent example of how slaves are taken away from their families, are deprived of education, forced to do manual labor, and are considered property of…

At Xavier University we believe in the “All for One and One for All” philosophy; showing that camaraderie and equality among all are still possible. One way Xavier lives up to its support for students is through the one-year long Smooth Transition mentoring program. I served as a smooth transition mentor to three incoming first-year students during the 2016-2017 academic year. In order to ensure that they have a successful first year at Xavier, I informed them about the resources Xavier…

more to the jokes than just entertainment value. Peter Green from Daily Review claimed that Lilley’s character Jonah Takalua is a racist portrayal of Tongan individuals, and that the biggest issue is Australia’s lack of reaction to the apparent ‘blackface’ that Lilley wears. This miscommunication is likely because the sense of humour that is so common to Australian’s is viewed by others as offensive or uncaring. Summer Heights High mainly…

Broadway, developed. There’s one prominent person who helped to establish the basis of Broadway theatre, Florenz Ziegfeld. In 1893 Ziegfeld went to Broadway to secure an act for the Chicago World Fair. At the time, broadway theaters were showing blackface minstrel shows, knockout comedy skits,…

Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. For centuries, many groups of people are guilty of this act, especially the white race. Because the U.S population is made up of people from hundreds of different ethnicities and over 13.3 percent of immigrants, it is not surprised that cultures will rub off on you. Even making the culture greater. But wearing a culture and disrespecting a culture are two different things. For example,…

Segregationists used the memory of slavery and the Civil War as a political tool to oppose desegregation in the southern United States. Politicians like George Wallace and the Dixiecrats used the guise of states rights to justify legal discrimination against Black Americans. The states rights rhetoric is explicitly tied to the white southerners’ memory of slavery and the Civil War —a memory these politicians appropriated to serve their cause. Wallace himself compared the Confederacy to the…

Finding humor in Black trauma has never been new, as seen by the popularity of minstrel shows and other blackface performances as far back as 1842. These shows portray Black people as caricatures and created a lot of the tired stereotypes still being used today, such as the concepts of Mammy, Pickaninny, Buck, and Uncle Tom. These stereotypes are still used…

Samantha White is portrayed as a multiracial, heterosexual female. Sam is the creator of the Dear White People radio show that she uses to call out various forms of racism and express her disgust of racial stereotypes. Although she is multiracial, Sam only refers to herself as being black while completely ignoring her white heritage. She openly expresses her blackness but is occasionally accused of overcompensating by her black friends because of this. One example of this is when Sam’s friend…

Ellison’s problem with Hyman’s analysis of his work were that his interpretations were racist and based in white stereotypes of African Americans as shown in the popular culture of the time as well as today like in Marlon Riggs’ Ethnic Notions. The film depicted negative stereotypes of African Americans that were reinforced by Hyman. These stereotypes were seen in almost all forms of media and thus black people were perceived in this negative way i.e. mammy, sambo, Jim Crowe, etc. Hyman…