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Leopold Seder Senghor, first Senegalese president, poet and politician and one of the pioneers in the Pan-African philosophical movement known as Negritude. He got a scholarship in 1925 and went to college in Paris. During his college years, he met Aime Cesaire and Leon Damas and together they established the negritude movement. In 1955 he is elected secretary of state of the French presidency before becoming in 1960 the first Senegalese president until 1980. Senghor promotes a quest for the…

Prior to, and even during the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1954-1968 , the United States of America saw a separation between their Blacks and Whites, as a result of the practice of the Jim Crow Laws which promoted the idea that the Blacks were lesser than the White . This saw the rise of two prominent African-American Civil Rights activists, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Though the two activists had a common goal (which was racial equality), their ideas of equality and…

Colors and Music in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Fatima Harb 39907 Lebanese University/ Master 1 Comparative literature Abstract A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams in 1947. In his play, Williams shed the light on the differences between classes in that age, through certain symbols, such as colors and music. The colors chosen by…

This essay will examine the use of poetry in expressing a poet’s ideology, how this is demonstrated in their work and the poet’s methods of communicating their world views to a reader. The work of Langston Hughes reflected the lives of the African Americans around him during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, and also the history that they all shared in Africa. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of revival for traditional African culture and a push for racial equality across in the community of…

When analyzing the intricate issues of the black Americans in the 20th century, Acknowledgments must be made toward 3 individuals that fought for the advancement of black Americans. These specific individuals are W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey. These 3 individuals all initiated platforms for the advancement of blacks at the time. Understanding the lives of blacks and the treatment of blacks by white Americans at the time plays a very crucial role in acknowledging the…

Washington and Du Bois both wrote during the 20th century when black people were just were beginning to try and fight for civil rights. They were two sides of the same coin when it came to decided what was the best approach for black people to begin this movement towards equality. Booker T. Washington believed that if we showed ourselves to be productive members of society and achieve economic independence that it would lead to true equality, so for right now we should set aside needs for civil…

Skinhead is a member of a subculture that. originated among working class youngsters in London, England. It started to grow in 1960s and shortly after spread to the other parts of United Kingdom. In 1980 skinhead subculture was spreading worldwide with second working class skinhead movement. Skinheads, defined by their shaved. or short trimmed hair and working-class clothing such as boots, braces, high-ankle straight jeans and simple shirts, were motivated by. social alienation, expression of.…

Introduction Wallace Thurman, an author in the Harlem Renaissance, undoubtedly wrote one of the greatest novel of his time, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, written in 1929, discussing feminism and colourism of Harlem in the 1920s-30s. Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry has not been forgotten, as nearly 100 years after its release, it is the core of two of influential hip-hop artist songs, Tupac Shakur’s Keep Ya Head Up and Kendrick Lamar’s The Blacker the Berry. Lamar and Shakur are…

In the eighteenth-century poem "To the University of Cambridge", Phillis Wheatley commands undergraduate students at Harvard to give attention to both their academics and to how their actions align with the lessons of moral conscientiousness and refinement that Jesus promotes. Wheatley's seemingly free meter contrasts with the position Wheatley sits in in the hierarchy of society. As an enslaved, penniless, formally-uneducated black woman, Wheatley resides at the bottom of the hierarchy of…

The Race to African American Success during The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a time of great change for African-American history. “As result of World War I and the Great Migration, millions of African Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North.”(The Harlem Renaissance, pg. 354) They believe that the urban North would provide them with a superior life for their children, education, and jobs. The north also offer economic opportunity, social advancement, and…