Kingdom of Ends

A man, restrained, entrapped, and excluded to the metaphorical table; restrained from enjoying the luxuries provided to other people in many ways, this is what the Narrator in Invisible man experiences and accepted as fact at one point. The world at the time, was filled with the false narrative of supremacy in race, lacking justice for those who were considered faulty. The Narrator denounces the injustice of the indoctrinated conformity to white supremacy through the knowledge that he gained…

Topic: How do Wright and D’aguiar challenge their white audiences entitled perspectives through what has happened in the past? In both Tom Wright’s, ‘Black Diggers’, and Fred D’Aguiar’s, ‘The Longest Memory’ disempowered characters constantly struggle against the power structure established by the status quo, but are ultimately silenced and never find their true identity. Through their historically based texts Wright and D’aguiar aim to give a voice to the voiceless. Wright and D’aguiar do this…

The event was when I came to USA. That I was the stranger in village. The village was that country view lane. Nobody know me for 5 months and keep away from me. After 5 months they still walked away from me. The people still ignore me and never talked to me. The black people insulted me when they know me. When people don’t know me they were nice to me. The people told me “you don’t belong here we going to kick you out”. When I came back home I was getting upset for 2 hours…

Analysis of Between the World and Me Claim Strategies (Pages 5-24) At the start of the novel, Coates addresses the topic of racism in a broad manner, using the American Dream as a backdrop of the horrors administered to black bodies over time. He shows how the Dream is manipulated to justify the mistreatment of black people, and how it instills crippling fear of the insecurity of one’s own body in African Americans. Coates places himself right at the beginning in the position of the weak and…

The Permanence of Racism “Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of the well”, Derrick Bell. For as long as humans have existed, the permanence of racism, prejudicialness and separation between mankind has always been prevalent. The idea presented in “Faces at the Bottom of the Well” that, “we shall overcome”, is an excuse for people of color to sit around and wait for an adversary to come and bring them out of the compromising situation Whites has placed us in. Bell elaborates on his…

John Keegan and Peter Arnade record the accounts of the Battle of Agincourt and the Army of Flanders press against the Low Countries during the Dutch Revolt, respectively, in Keegan’s Agincourt and Arnade’s Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots. In fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe, military conflicts ranging between the English and the Spanish to the Spanish versus the general population of the Low Countries were governed by the emotions of the persons that participated. Understanding…

“An invisible package of unearned assets”(McIntosh 1). Peggy McIntosh’s article “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”, explains the advantages that come with being white. She explains white privilege as “ a package of unearned assets” that she can “cash in” because usually, white people are not expected to work as hard as colored people to accomplish their goals. The article explains white privilege as an “invisible knapsack” of a wide range of opportunities. It is a very capitalistic mentality…

Invisibility can be defined as “the situation of men whose individual identity is denied” (Lieber, 1972: 86) Invisible Man, written by Ralph Ellison, tells the story of a refined and educated black man straining to endure and prosper in an ethnically and culturally divided society which rejects him as a human being. This essay attempts to examine the invisibility, anonymity and alienation of the modern subject, especially in relation to racism, the essay servers to select several key moments in…

Abstract:’ The Refugee’ a one act play was written by Asif Currimbhoy.The play portrays the miserable condition of the refugees from East Bengal on hand and on the other hand the play throws ample light on the effects of the refugee problems in social life in India during 1971.Asif combines the major issues with other problems like communalism as it is also led by other issues. It suggests that one problem gives way to other problems. The present play focuses all the issues due to the influx of…

neighborhood but, they are a black family, so they were not welcomed to move in. This caused everyone in the family to hesitate about whether or not to move in. But, this was Mama’s dream, to buy a new house for the family and to bring them closer. In the end, they all decided to move in. So, the play ended happily because moving into the new neighborhood will be a new start for the whole family, a chance for everyone in the Younger…