Blackness

Toomer intends to use Fern’s body as a form of racial sacrifice for the benefit of society. Fern’s complex identity embodies the sorrows of African Americans and Jews who are overwhelmed by the intense oppression caused by white supremacy. Toomer centralizes his focus on Fern’s peculiar eyes and the atrocities which she has witnessed. Her eyes are perceived as “strange” and “that they sought nothing” (Toomer 18). With the racial hybridity of African American and Jewish heritage, Fern’s strange…

For instance, he states that ignoring that BLM is about anti-Blackness is “an attempt by non-Black people to absolve ourselves from the social responsibility we have to address our own issues with racism” (p.6). This concept is not a new idea and has been brought to attention by influence music artists such as Macklemore…

The Politics of Black Hair: A Feminist Analysis of the Construction the Black Female Identity The general consensus amongst most feminist scholars is that beauty standards have not changed much since the 1800s—the construction of female beauty still features a young white woman with large breasts, a small waist, light eyes, and long flowing hair. The act of policing the alteration of Black hair has become one of the most significant ways in which Black people engage in respectability politics.…

Advertisements make such good bait for the human eyes. Companies spend essentially billions of dollars on advertising their products. Businesses use many different methods to make their product sell and make their customers want to get it. Advertisements convey essentially a psychological desire to get the product and use it because that ad makes them what to be like the person in the commercial. The products I am comparing are “Gucci Guilty” and “Radiance “by Britney Spears. Advertisements have…

In todays’ world obtaining a college degree is ideal and expected. Having a degree can have a huge effect on an individual’s life outcomes. In order to receive this degree there are many challenging factors that one has to overcome. Being black and in higher education these challenges can stack up. Whether being able to overcome racism and the lack of support at a Predominantly White Institute (PWI) can largely affect ones willingness to complete college. The 2011 President’s Agenda and The…

Edgar Allan Poe, is a horror setting because the dark prison area of the story is very dark and gives the reader a creepy feeling. The main character that is part of the story, the Inquisition’s prisoner, observes in his surroundings on page 6, “The blackness of eternal night encompassed me.” This observation is highly detailed by the narrator, and clearly explains the thickness and denseness of the darkness, which acts a horror element. The darkness frightens the prisoner, which, in this case,…

He concludes that he is indeed living a “double life” with love for his blackness and his wild state, and the final stanza reiterates that leading a “double life” is indeed hazardous to one who has deep desires. Ultimately, Cullen clearly articulates in “Heritage” that he has deep ethnic pride but at the same time, his ethnicity…

As an author of the Harlem Renaissance, Jean Toomer wrote for an audience composed of more than his peers. With Cane (Toomer, 1923), he reached for a black audience in search of identity. Influenced by classical poets William Blake and Walt Whitman, “stream-of-consciousness” novelist James Joyce, and novelist Sherwood Anderson’s short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), Cane also addresses a white audience receptive to the minority and mixed races that culturalist Onita Estes-Hicks refers…

Why are there so many blacks in Latin America? Explain the roots of black heritage in Latin America. By 1518, King Charles I of Spain authorized the slave trade because of the high demand for cheap labor that sprouted from the Spanish New World. The Spanish imported slaves to Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. The Portuguese by the 1530s were already importing slaves to Brazil. Through the Transatlantic Slave Trade, roughly around 12 million Africans were sent to the Americas. In result, many…

The Party had an intimidating and immediately recognizable look. Their uniform organized the group. They wore sunglasses, black jackets, and afros, which was a full and fluffy hairstyle inspired by African Americans’ natural curls (Tortora & Marcketti, p. 551) . Kathleen cleaver is featured in an excerpt called Black Panther Style from The black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2016) explaining that as black people we wear our hair like this because we were born like this. She goes on to…