Blackness

pretty, but black people are usually ugly, no offense." "You don't act like a black girl." "She's pretty, but her hair is weird." "Hey Oreo!" "I don't date black girls, no offense." The list goes on. I brushed it off, believing that suppressing my blackness would be for the better. Maybe if I acted "more white" people would treat me with respect. I always pushed myself to be better, forever cautious not to come across as "ghetto" or a "trouble maker." Even as a young child, it became normal for…

Moreover, as Shug and Celie get to know, Shug realizes that Celie has never been in love with her husband and that she has never experienced any sexual pleasure because she is not aware of her anatomical build. As they get closer to each other, Shug decides to teach Celie about her own body in order to show to her its beauty. Silenced through so many years and unaccepted by her husband, the protagonist wants to get to know her hidden desires. Shug encourages her to experience her own body by…

“I know why the Caged Bird Sings” marked one of the first times that a Black autobiographer could, as Als put it, "write about blackness from the inside, without apology or defense". ( "Maya Angelou: 1929-2014". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. Retrieved 20 November 2015.) Through the writing of her autobiography, Angelou became recognized as a respected spokesperson for blacks…

racialized slavery they went from admiring and respecting African women to overtime slowly deconstructing their humanity by questioning their humanity, there for “demonizing” their existing. Morgan’s ties to convince that this cause the European to link “blackness” with “savageness” and enabled them to justify the enslaving Africans to commodify their benefits, but she does not communicate other factors that could have of convey to European racial ideology. She fails to discuss the exclusion of…

Suspense in The Most Dangerous Game (first draft) “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell tells the dark, twisted story of hunter versus the hunted. This short story follows world-class hunter, Sanger Rainsford, who becomes stranded on a strange, remote island after falling off his ship. He soon finds a chateau inhabited by another big-game hunter by the name of General Zaroff. However, Rainsford and the audience quickly come to discover that this particular hunter is not satisfied with…

The recognition of African American English (AAE), as a language is nonexistent at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). AAE, also known as Ebonics is an essential aspect of the African American cultural heritage. African American students attending PWIs has increased dramatically in the 21st century. Black students account for nearly 15 percent of the national college population with approximately 2.2 million whom are enrolled in institutions (Alim and Baugh 386). According to Payne and…

As a result of his curiosity about the universe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft also philosophized that the existence of the supernatural is a possibility because the infinite cosmos has yet to be explored in its entirety. The monsters and otherworldly beings that Lovecraft writes of are not gory and do not evoke feelings of shock, but they are more so are disturbing in the fact that they remain inexplicable. Through his own mythology, he developed a fictional universe of supernatural beings that…

have the wrong diagnosis and the wrong cure. Part of the reason so many Indigenous Australians continue to be put away at an alarming rate is because we haven’t properly addressed our long history of racial terror in this country which has treated blackness as a proxy for criminality, a substitute for criminality. Now, according to the most recent statistics, twenty- seven percent of aboriginals were prisoners in 2016, but it’s not just our legal system that pops up this myth of black dangers.…

In the late 40’s African Americans did not see themselves as having a major role to play in images, it was hard for them to emotionally consider the significance of a camera during the years of racial apartheid. The degrading images of blackness that circulated widely from racist white imaginations could be viewed as true life images. “More than any other image-making tool, the camera offered African-Americans, disempowered in white culture, a way to empower ourselves through representation…

“But Their Ugliness Was Unique”: An African American Literary Examination of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Does being ugly refer to the physical aspects of a person, the way they think, the color of their skin, or the way in which one is raised? Toni Morrison, an African American novelist, originally named Chloe Anthony Wofford, interprets and examines the “black experience” throughout her many novels (http://www.britannica.com/Toni-Morrison). The Bluest Eye, being one of them, is a remarkable…