History of South Africa

Dr. Sims’ cunningness misleads the medical field, in his articles and public presentation in the North; he did not state the patients were enslaved black women. In his diagrams Dr. Sims uses white women because he knew his experiments was scientifically racist and did not want to discuss the subject. Thom’s painting illustrates other physicians were around to witness or even participate in his horrific experiments, but did not intervene to stop it. These experiments on enslaved black women were…

In the story Axolotl, “I” went the aquarium and accidentally fall in love with the axolotls. “I” found out that the axolotls are different from other species, and they have a pair of eyes that could see through darkness. “I” imagine myself as an axolotl, but also a human being. My body is trapped inside an axolotl; At the same time, “I” want to be free. “I” am looking for the eyes of axolotl so “I” could take a clear look at this world. The author expresses his emotions toward axolotls, he shows…

Race, Sex and Power This paper will explore the themes of race, sex and how stereotypes assign power to them. I will use Lutz and Collin’s article, “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” to examine the history behind race and gender as well as the stereotypes for different races and genders. I will also use director Heredia’s 1993 documentary, The Couple in the Cage, to examine how people of different countries depict and stereotype indigenous people. Finally, I…

most of the people who talk are the other white students in the class. I don’t think there has been one time were a fellow black student counting myself has expressed our own opinion. And it’s because we're scared. I still have that image of the history, when the white people would beat and humiliate black people on a daily. We even see it today, but instead of the white people beating and humiliating the black people it’s now the government. Videos of policeman brutality towards a innocent…

Maya Angelou describes the boxing match of Joe Louis as a representative the African American race was fighting through the inequalities that they have been subject. In this piece, Angelou presents her childhood about how was it like to be African American in a certain time and place. When Angelou stated, “champion of the world, a Black boy. Some Black mother’s son.” this statement is significant it presents breaking the boundary between the black and white. The match of Joe Louis and the white…

The book I am reading is called ´The Help” written by Kathryn Stockett. Kathryn Stockett is an American journalist, Kathryn writes Adult fiction books she was most known for her 2009 debut novel The Help. Kathryn grew up in Jackson, Mississippi she graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree on English and creative Writing she then moved to New york and worked 16 years in magazine publishing and marketing. Stockett was sued by an African American women who worked for Stockettś…

#BlackLivesMatter is a recent and current social movement that is based on black people having their lives taken away from them for pretty much the soul reasoning of them being black. This report will look at the history of the hashtag itself and how the movement started. It will also look at cases where black lives were taken for being wrongly accused for something that they were not doing. Lastly, this report will touch base on what has been accomplished in the short time that…

parents, Mahalee and Fred Lucas. Most of his Childhood took place at the height of the great depression when most people were suffering in poverty, especially the African Americans. This made life hard for his family and because he lived in the deep south where racism was at its worst, it is easy to see why he turned toward the life of crime. According to Frank himself, the main reason he began to follow a life of crime is because he witnessed the KKK murder his 12-year-old cousin for staring at…

Author Salamishah Tillet’s article titled, “How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Silences Black Women” (October 12, 2016) discusses how Nat Turner’s new movie confers the history of slavery and American revolutionaries but ignores the sexual abuse black women endured during slavery. Tillet’s use of different types of novels, narratives, films, and background knowledge to support her reasoning. Tillet’s purpose of writing this op-ed is to educate and inform readers the discomfort and overlooked…

The definition of a black film would seem to be an easy standard to mutually agree on. Films about the people and culture of the African diaspora would satisfy most definitions, but issues arrive when black people are poorly represented and stereotyped or when the definition excludes other cultures from discussing black culture when they could also give a fair and thoughtful representation in Black Cinema. Thomas Lott argues that it can be hard to identify what makes quality black films because…