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by Ta-Nehisi Coates, he explains to his son the challenges of being a black body in society. Coates writes about his transition from childhood to adulthood. He discusses learning about the truths and laws for being a black body. He questions the American dream, government, and history. He explains that many problems exist because of social constructs such as police brutality, education, and living conditions for the black body. Black bodies are systematically oppressed. (Thesis) Police…

showed that there has been an increased amount of police officers shooting helpless African Americans. Certain examples are people such as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and one of the latest victims Sandra Bland and one thing they all had in common was that they were all unarmed. This is one thing that frightens me, because this means that at any time I could lose my life. African Americans have to be careful with what they do every single day, especially when they are around a…

primed to authorize the film scholar to approach other ways of performing humanness as a verb, and to find inventive ways of implementing humanness as a creative and biographic practice. As a student, I have noted that a large segment of African American film scholars are both resistant and dismissive of the film theory that is integral to the success and continuance of Black independent film study. It is my contention that…

Set in the 1940’s, Toni Morrison’s novel “The Bluest Eye” is a tale of Pecola, a young Negro girl shunned by society for being ugly due to her skin colour and appearance. Morrison explores life in America during the late 60s and early 70s in which American culture was influenced predominantly by the white race. Using a creative approach, Toni Morrison explores the white ideal that the Negro population strives to attain to shed light on an arguably different kind of racism. Through the use of…

information through the word of mouth. There is the use of the folklore in the black vernacular used in the throughout the play to broach important issues and also conflicts such as the poverty, discrimination and also the very construction of the African American identity. To start with is the title of the play, A Raisin in the sun. a line that was from 1951, in the Langston Hughes's famous poem "Harlem: A Dream Deferred". A black poet whose voice was heard through…

on African American culture and society. He discusses Michael Jordan’s success as an athlete calling him, “perhaps the best, and best known, athlete in the world today” (1). He also points out his role as a positive influence, and a success in both marketing and business, specifically referring to his impact in the “sneaker” world. The audience for this article is specifically African Americans. The writer makes comparisons to other successful people, all of whom are African American, including…

The autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings works by singer, poet, writer, and actress Maya Angelou, it is one of the most widely read and taught book by an African American woman. The title of the book comes from Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "Sympathy." The connection of the poem with the novel is where a little persistence bird (Marguerite) struggles against the bars of the cage life barriers , but she gets up, she rises and pushes forward. Although I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings covers…

They had to use the clothes of the relatives because they could not afford finances to buy new clothing. According to Goldman (73), African Americans used discarded goods to make their quits. They did not only use discarded materials in quilting but also in making other things. Historians indicate that some African Americans acquired second-hand instruments from the army bands after the civil war and some used old trombones and trumpets to makes simple things such as Jazz (Conyers…

2. In the play “Fences” there are many components that contribute to the play being about African Americans. One contribution to this is the improper grammatical terms used in the play. Like the use of the word “nigger” “You was in the neighborhood alright, nigger.” Another example is the use of the word “cause”.” Yes, ma'am, I got plums, you ask me how I sell them, Oh ten cents apiece, Three for a quarter, come and buy now ’cause I’m here today and tomorrow I'll be gone. ”Also the use of the…

Toni Morrison is a black African-American novelist of 20th C whose novels show and record a brief history of African-Americans of the early times of the 19thC. She became the first African-American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Toni Morrison shows us the troublesome circumstances within which the slaves were forced to live, the dark aspects of humanity, and the destructions that are delivered to their lives through her novels. She has attempted to show the past of slavery,…