Economy of Haiti

The transatlantic slave trade is responsible for the traumatic migration of millions of African to the Western Hemisphere from the mid-15th – 19th century. The trafficking of African is sometime referred to, by the Swahili word Maaf. It was the involvement of Africans from other African kingdoms come procuring captives for trade to the European possible. It is inaccurate to think that all captured Africans became slaves due to passive resistance. African fought their capturers even at the cost…

Daurys Gomez, a future entrepreneur with a thriving clothing brand. Born in Orange, New Jersey Gomez is coming from a Dominican background. The way you go grow up may affect how you carry yourself through your life. Gomez states, “ Life was pretty easy compared to now to be honest. Growing up it was more like, in a kids perspective, it was really fun because I was around friends and although the area wasn't the best when it comes to safety, we made the best of it.” Safety was a problem growing…

In the fight against racial policing, young activists have created campaigns titled #SayTheirName and #SayHerName. Under In the #SayHerName campaign, the activists have tried to spread awareness about the black victims who don’t have a voice to speak for themselves because they’re no longer here. The #SayHerName movement, another movement in connection to the #saytheirname campaign, focuses on police brutality against black women. Sandra Bland, an innocent black woman, was found dead in her…

Invisibility can be defined as “the situation of men whose individual identity is denied” (Lieber, 1972: 86) Invisible Man, written by Ralph Ellison, tells the story of a refined and educated black man straining to endure and prosper in an ethnically and culturally divided society which rejects him as a human being. This essay attempts to examine the invisibility, anonymity and alienation of the modern subject, especially in relation to racism, the essay servers to select several key moments in…

The previous stories of the Nights are a good point to begin our discussion of blackness and racial discrimination in the stories. While The Arabian Nights presents stories about the Islamic empire, it foists stories of slavery and blackness. Unlike the Atlantic trade slaves, slaves in the Arabian Nights “inhabit a different history from plantation slaves, and do not fit easily into abolitionist discourse: they were more frequently domestic or military.”(Slavery, blackness) In The Arabian Nights…

Oscar Wao Paper 1 Fuku a curse of doom. Fuku was brought to Santo Domingo by the dictator, Rafael Trujillo or that is how the Dominican people would testify. Oscar Wao’s family was cursed by Fuku as shown in the novel. “If you even thought a bad thing about Trujillo,fua, a hurricane would sweep your family out to sea,fua,....” p.3 This is how fuku is presented in the novel and how it was known in Santo Domingo. My family was presented with a term similar to fuku. This term is known as…

Carpentier choses to write on the perspective of an indefinite slave, which is none other than Ti-Noël, who was the main point of view of one of the Revolution. Carpentier sees the Revolution’s as a successes, as he moves the narrative away from Haiti, instead of following the route of the escaping French planters to Santiago de Cuba. “Even though Ti Noel was a free man, he set foot on a land where slavery had been abolished forever”. The blacks were treated in a way in which they valid…

Textual Response Racially driven stereotypes have been around forever, especially where African-American males are concerned. Most likely you know a few yourself. However, in "Who Shot Johnny?" Debra Dickerson provides her insight, as to why she thinks Black men are stereotyped as criminals. Similarly, Brent Staples tackles the same issue in his piece titled, "Black Men and Public Space." While Staples and Dickerson touch on the same topic; each takes on the subject from a different perspective…

There truly is nothing like having the opportunity in immerging oneself within a culture to find out who they are as human beings and how they feel about themselves in society and how they feel about law enforcement. Through new personal experiences, interviews, books, and online research I have expanded my knowledge of customs, traditions, and practices unfamiliar to me. My partner and I decided to choose the African American Culture. Although the African American culture is not new; it is a…

Our phones are powerful tools of media. The media is a popular medium promoting racism and negative stereotypes about black people. For many years the media has been shown hundred of thousands of blacks triumphantly playing sports, and very few performing successfully in school. These negative stereotypes have caused been showing more blacks playing sports than in school. People choose to do this in the media because they think that black athletes don't have the ability to be smart when it comes…