Blackness

World War II impacted the American film industry through the influences of the war effort. Films that were made during this time often worked in line with this effort by projecting messages of unity, where racial and class differences amongst Americans were put on the backburner in order to fight one common and external enemy. Scholar Anna Everett asserts that during the war the film industry temporarily suspended its usual racist and stereotypical depictions of Black Americans for the war…

society’s ideals, just like Frankie. He is haunted by racial persecution, while Frankie faces gender persecution. Both Frankie and Honey fight against society’s plans for them. Honey is lightly colored and talks like a white person. However, his half blackness keeps him from pursuing his goals. However, Society will not let them fight their stereotypes. In the end of the novel, both Frankie and Honey bright light is put out by…

This coat of arms is made to represent Ender Wiggin. In the novel, Ender’s Game, Ender Wiggin is a brave leader, a genius, and the general of a space army. The symbols represent each of those characteristics in some way. In the top left corner, there’s a crown, the symbol of a leader or king. When people have crowns bestowed upon them, one of their duties inherently becomes leading the army of whatever nation the person has been out in command of. Ender’s Game was a chronology of Ender becoming…

Jock City in 1991, Juice in 1992, Friday in 1995, and other movies may not have been meant to glorify the ghetto/gangster lifestyle but when filtered through negative racial perceptions... these theatrical leant credibility to the assumptions of Black culture..." (Hart 15). The Black Best Friend’s main job is to help their white friend out of problems, their character has little to no context. They are also called the token black friend. They usually tag along behind the white friend with quirky…

of the Sociopolitical Stakes of Oscar Micheaux 's “Within Our Gates” “If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.” ― Junot Díaz For many Americans, ideas of what constitutes Blackness are heavily influenced by media portrayals of African Americans; yet, these popular representations of Black Americans and their culture often highlight dated stereotypical images. As a result, white Americans who have limited contact with…

and class, blackness to sexuality, and sexuality to money in Johnson’s novel (Butler 51-52). In her analysis, Butler states that the narrator associates white people as a source of class and culture. She argues that the narrator’s memories of his father, interactions with the white widow, millionaire friend, and marrying of a white woman all reflect his view of having relationships with white people as a way of gaining status and capital. From here, Butler shifts her focus to blackness and…

Florens discovers her blackness under the racist religious white gaze; “blackness is me” (Morrison, 115). She understands the difference between being white and colored which reawakens the girl’s earliest trauma of isolation and abandonment; “Without [the letter] I am a weak calf abandon by the herd, a…

Othello is a Moorish man living in medieval Venice, who is by all accounts well-respected by most of the other characters. He is rendered “exotic” by his background, but this doesn’t seem to impede the advancements and long strides which he has successfully made over time, through his merit he succeeds in rising to the upper echelons of the Venetian military. As the plot of the play continues to be unwrapped however, the progress and success that he has made for himself is slowly undone. Othello…

in the stillness and the sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness “ this quote may be a personal favorite from the book because this one line has such significance, first it tells of snow whispering down in which snow is often viewed as a symbol of renewal and birth thus giving the sense that the world may heal itself over time. Then you have the sparks from the fire rising up only to die in eternal blackness which contradicts the symbol of the snow in terms that even if the…

grew up poor and black in rural Mississippi. In her memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Moody tells what is was like to grow up black in the Jim Crow Era. As Anne Moody recounts her childhood, she relays the exact moment in which she realized her blackness made her inferior to her white counterparts. Her realization was a significant part of her childhood, but what came after this point was also crucial. She began questioning what it meant to be black, and searching for explanations. This…