Frantz Fanon

Some might say imperialism is a great thing to use when one country needs resources, but all it does is destroy culture, homes, and families in the country with the resources. A country will go to any extent to get what they want, whether that is burning down a tree or destroying people’s lives. The age of Imperialism was roughly 1870-1914, and countries used extreme force to get what they want without thinking about how their actions will affect the other country. Imperialism is shown in the…

“Black Privilege: Exploring consciousnesses to de-problematize and normalize blackness” Black privilege is a construct virtually unexplored to the masses. In theory, only white supremacists have ventured to name the phenomenon, though incorrectly. However, such a thing as black privilege may very well exist. But it is no way comparable to white privilege in its meaning or benefits. To be sure, black privilege in the context thus referred is a black person’s ability to adopt a consciousness or…

As long as there has been humanity, there has been art. As long as there has been art, there has been culture. Both Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man and Spike Lee’s 2000 film Bamboozled examine the links between the two. Invisible Man follows an unnamed protagonist, the narrator, through his journey as a young black man navigating life from the south to the north, and eventually through the Brotherhood, a predominantly white organization who fight for racial equality. Bamboozled is the…

Frantz Fanon ridiculed the affected pretentiousness of Martinician "been-tos" in Black Skin, White Masks, and the cultural confusion of the been-to Nyasha and her family in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions is one of the fundamental theme in that novel. The characters in Nervous Conditions who have not had the same experience of travel in the west find the desire of those who have returned to impose their English values, language, and religion on everyone else confusing and unpleasant.…

When I was fifteen years old I remember sitting on a bed in a hotel room with my brother and sister watching the documentary, Good Hair, with Chris Rock. Ironically this was just after I had gotten my last relaxer, a creamy product that chemically processes hair to make it permanently straight, which left me with a burn on my head. I was in Virginia to visit my dad’s side of the family. My siblings and I stayed with my sister and she insisted that she was going to take us to the hair salon to…

Black Intellectuals have always been caught between the preverbal rock and hard place. They have constantly had the dilemma of establishing their existence not only in the white world, which seeks to diminish and minimize them as mere cases of either affirmative action or charity, but also the Black one as well, who has no conception of the work and the toil that these individuals face day in and day out in their intellectual inquiry into the political, social, and economic workings of our…

In Wilson's play Fences, black men and women are stereotyped due to several factors. The play took place after World War II when women had replaced men in their roles. After the war was over, many women wanted to keep these jobs but were again replaced by men and thus remaining at home to play their initial roles. Rose, Troy's husband has been portrayed as an extremely maternal figure in the play (Grabowski, 2013). She is presented as a strong stereotypical mother who plays the role of taking…

The second half of the twentieth century was for Iran a period of immense political and social change. The struggle to reconcile its advancement toward secular Westernization with its strong Islamic roots led to great social upheaval. Indeed the “culture of distrust” that marked the Iranian political sphere created a sense of paranoia among the masses on which revolutionaries like Ali Shari’ati acted. But many of the conspiracy theories that prevailed were not without legitimacy; Iranians felt…

The Lingering Effects of Slavery During the 16th century, there occurred a vast emergence of slave owners. People were confined to the venomous belief of slavery being a natural, God-sent form of labor. They believed that it was fair for African peoples (mostly African Americans) to be forced into horrific extents of labor without pay. The slaves were given no rights or freedom; they were dehumanized. They were treated as commodities, meaning they were bought and sold as property. The central or…

Colonization of Africa The European settlers forcibly seized Africans land, resources and plantation. European created myth of “white man’s burden” is to show themselves as enlightened and as someone who is above common natives whereas Africans as savage, uncivilized and barbarians. But it only reveals one fact that how dehumanizing colonialism was in terms of creating hierarchy by categorizing human being. European imperialist mission to dominate the colonized land was based on…