Irish diaspora

The individual has the power to change the positionality of the community enhancing or influencing the prosperity of commonality. In the award winning novel, Sula by Torri Morrison the author shows a subjective structure of a —African American—community living in a small town called the Bottom, by using unique individuals to create and construct the overall environment of freedom. Initially, Morrison underscores the oppression of the community through the dialogue of the community, but the…

When discussing the movement of Black Consciousness or African Consciousness one has to identify as Black or African which are defined differently depending on a person’s individual understanding of black history. Many people say, “knowing your history doesn’t matter”, and “history should be forgotten, if it is something that continuously evokes painful emotions”. However, others believe that it is vital to know and love one’s self and one’s culture. It is believed that this is important not…

Collins purpose is to construct an analysis of the underlying connections between Black sexual politics and the new racism. These analyses include, “a set of ideas and social practices shaped by gender, race, and sexuality that frame Black men and women’s treatment of one another, - perceived and treated by others” (Collins p.7). Collins distinguishes the differences between those illustrations by providing the historical context followed by empirical and conceptual studies that offer a…

The Organization for African Students’ Interests and Solidarity (OASIS) serves as a place where African students can discuss their identities and meet other African students on the University of North Carolina’s campus. Organizations like OASIS that are specifically geared towards these students are becoming more imperative because the population of Africans on college campuses is on the rise. The number of African born immigrants in the United States has doubled in size between 2000 and 2010.…

Dead Men’s Path is written by (Achebe)and is considered a modernization of the African tribal life. The story is about a man named Michael Obi who is a young, energetic man. Obi is the young new headmaster at the college, a traditional college. Obi has new ideas he thinks will bring the school into a modern era. He soon finds that his ideas don’t achieve the results that he imagined. Obi, bright and enthusiastic as ever who is excited to find out what he can do for the school that has been in…

The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl in Ohio who faces great adversity as a result of her race, gender, and age. She wants nothing more than to have blue eyes, believing that they would make her beautiful and improve her quality of life. She lives in a small house with her mother Pauline, her father Cholly, and her brother Sammy. In an excerpt titled “Battle Royal” from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the narrator faces…

All throughout Langston Hughes writing he works to make the statement that no matter what, he will never conform to white ideals. In “The Negro Artists and the Racial Mountains” he writes,” I am a Negro – and beautiful!” He even often calls out black writers for trying to conform and blend in with white culture, and he deliberately does not write in “proper” English like white people do because he wants to express his culture and where he comes from. Langston writes,” It is the duty of the…

Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, is about the Problem of middle-class people ideas of beauty on a female of an African American girls. Her novel came about after Morrison talked with someone who wanted to have blue eyes, the novel shows a girl, Pecola Breedlove, who wanted love and to be taken into a world that doesn’t care about people of her race. Author Shelley Wong’s in her Article Transgression as Poesis in The Bluest Eye talks about the different ways in which Morrison wrote her novels…

Toni Morrison´s first novel successfully portrayed the life of young girls from Afro-American families, who are facing racism, violence while-, they are searching for an identity in the primarily white world. Morrison touched many points concerning racial and social problems that were on the stake during the period after the Great Depression and maybe could even have some meaning nowadays. It is possible for young girls to be able of self-love and confidence-, even when they are exposed every…

Do people ever feel like they just want to kill? In The book Native Son, by Richard Wright, tells the story of a Black man named Bigger. The book follows Bigger and unveils the story through his eyes and peers through his thoughts, emotions, and actions. The story takes place in the south side of Chicago where many Black Americans who flee from the south in search of better lives in the north and during the time was when discrimination against African- Americans were an everyday occurance. There…