Josephine Baker

The two individuals selected for this paper seemingly go hand in hand even though I had no prior knowledge of their backgrounds when I chose them. Although it can be said that all of the old tap legends served as leaders in the industry for the future generations, this particular legend was a pioneer for African-Americans in show business and paved the way for my chosen contemporary tap legend to succeed. Prince Spencer was born in Jenkinsville, South Carolina on October 3, 1917. At seven years…

Antebellum experienced rapid societal change stemming from the industrialization and rapid urbanization of north, marking the economic transition to capitalism. With the shift to capitalism, individualism developed from the change in the value of individual labor and nostalgia for the frontier. As the increasingly moral middle-class became more solidified, the wage gap increased, and the northerners became increasingly economically different from the south, the reform impulse grew. Reform…

Although they are achieving that goal, many other things are going very wrong. “The desire to control nature, reinforced by the recent advances in scientific technique, leads inevitably to the desire to control and regulate society” (Baker 65). While using science to create and control children they are only controlling and regulating the whole society from the ability to live and act as human beings actually should. Science is also taking over religion in the World State. Religion has…

The media defines normality. For example, it defines how a perfect house should look like, how a perfect family should look like, how the idea of a perfect body should look like. The media uses imagery to portray men and women gender role in society, and more times than not, classifies women as a second class citizen to men. In the media, especially in imagery, men are usually portrayed as dominant; in figure one, the man is on top of the woman as she is in a submissive position. The woman is…

During the early 1900s, many black Americans began to move up north due to the industrial boom, and the need for a larger work force. World War one also made it necessary to ensure all military needs were met. Because of the Great Migration, many northern cities were flooded with black migrants looking for a better way of life. However, once the war ended, and soldiers returned home, competition for jobs and housing became fierce as the economy took a turn. Discrimination and segregation was…

Male activists appeared to be at the forefront of the undertaking, though a tremendous number of women played an absolutely essential role in the movement. The program of speakers at the 1963 March on Washington had only one female speaker, Josephine Baker. The erasure of black women’s efforts in the movement was a product of male activist’s fragile masculinity. In effort to feel powerful during that uncertain time of racial unrest, black men aggressively held onto the public image of the Civil…

Whether America is a ‘melting pot’ or a ‘mixed salad’ is an enduring metaphorical debate among historians, philosophers, and sociologists alike. Some believe our nation’s collective mentality is numerous separate cultures bumping against each other but never melding, while some believe our nation’s mentality is one new culture, informed and influenced by, but separate from all other world cultures. Perhaps there are some aspects of both conditions in our society. However, the aspects of our…

As a result of new dances such as the Charleston, the Black Bottom, the Shimmy, Turkey trot and the Cakewalk. Famous new dancers such as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, The Nicholas Brothers, Stepin Fetchit, Butterbeans and Suzy and Evelyn Welch, Josephine Baker, George Snowden, Herbert White, Earl "Snakehips" Tucker, Mildred Dixon and Florence Mills not only were jazz musicians, but they performed these dances for their audiences in a place called the Cotton club. The Cotton club was actually one of…

History of Cosmetology “ I Am a Woman who came from cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the wash tub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I was promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair and goods preparations…… I have built my own factory on my own ground.” This quote is from, Madam CJ Walker.This demonstrates she started from the bottom and made it up to the top where no one thought she could be. Cosmetology is the professional skin…

Famously said by Josephine baker. Discrimination throughout America’s past plays a big role in American society and culture today. For example, in To Kill a Mockingbird the color of a man’s skin decides whether he is innocent or guilty, and in The Help white people decide what kind of lives African Americans are allowed to live. In both stories the fate of black lives is in the hands of the white folk’s. Also, similarly in both stories the white folks always discriminate against blacks. In To…