Hmong American

Delores Phillips does amazing job relating her debut book The Darkest Child to the hard times of Georgia of in 1950’s. Her novel captivates reader and sends the audience into the rough times of Tangy Mae’s life. Tangy Mae is the 6th child of her biracial mother Rozelle Quinn, she has to step up to the plate when her mother gets pregnant with her 10th child, Tangy now has to care for her mother as well as her siblings. Tangy goes through her childhood feeling like she doesn’t fit in, or live up…

American Promise is a documentary film that captures the experiences of Idris Brewster and Seun Summers two middle-class African American boys from Brooklyn. Recorded over the span of thirteen years, this film chronicles their journeys at the Dalton School, one of the most prestigious private schools in the US. While this documentary raises serious concerns and challenges to the widely held American Dream, it presents us with a much needed insight on the realities of class, race, and opportunity…

Moreover, stating that highly educated African Americans does not have to deal or face the same discrimination and inequality of that as uneducated blacks but are offered the same opportunities as white educated individuals. Wilson is arguing that over time the competition between race and opportunities…

By the 18th century, it was obvious that the American colonies had grown very different, and fiercely independent, from its parent country of Great Britain. Colonial American culture was viewed by its European counterparts as being considerably less refined: A culture without a clearly defined class system that embraced democracy (Schweikart & Allen, 2004). This independent spirit had, no doubt, developed out of necessity; while officially a British colony, Parliamentary laws and edicts were…

The idea of wealthy individuals touring through the lives of individuals who are poor and capturing what it is like to be poor is notorious in American History. Jacobs Riis and James Agree are two interesting authors with different backgrounds, but shared similar motives. The two authors bring the struggled of American poverty to life by inserting themselves among poor families and wrote about their lives. In his book “How the Other Half Lives”, Riis reports on the lives of many ethnic and…

Michelle, 26, and Jorge, 29 having been dating approximately 4 almost 5 years. She is from Ecuador and he is from Peru. They both felt in love when they meet for the first time at the University they both attend in Miami, Florida. As their fifth anniversary, approximate they have plans to celebrate it in a different way so for that they have planned to take a trip to Cancun, Mexico. But, in order to get the preparation started they are debating whether to take an airplane or to simply make it a…

Luther King Jr., has left a legacy to last for many years . Through the use of vivid imagery, allusion, and elevated and poetic diction, a carefully crafted work of art was born, and King was able to effectively appeal to his audience and encourage Americans to fight for equality…

In his pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine gives several arguments to convince the colonist’s on why they should separate from British rule. He is effective on persuading them to do so because of his use of facts, arguments, and common sense. He is also effective because he appeals to his audience by implementing the bible and understandable metaphors in his text. He argued the causes of wanting Independence was British’s cruel treatment, it would be beneficial to the colonies, and America…

from an African American multiculturalist theories perspective. This journal will also be seen as autobiographical, meaning the Clifton will be seen as the narrator. In the poem, there are three sections which start with the name of an influential woman. Clifton uses three women to allude to different events in black history. Dobie calls the material African American artist work black aesthetic (Dobie 221). The…

note, ranking the women by skill, it was seen that the Black women were ranked the lowest. This can propose the question, were white women more skilled than black women? Rockman helps explain this question by stating that “the birthplaces of African American women help explain the apparent gap in domestic skills” (Rockman 123). Depending on where they lived, women were most likely trained with different skills. Some women may have been put into slavery at a younger age than others and therefore…