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It was rough being African American in a time like the 1940’s, especially in the United States. Langston Hughes, however, knew how to turn those hardships into poetry. Hughes was a strong believer of equality, and he expressed this in his poems. Because he grew up as an African American during the time of segregation in the United States and not only saw but experienced first hand the many acts of unkindness done to African Americans, Langston Hughes’s “I, Too” has a universal theme of racial…

Ernest J. Gaines is the author of the novel “A Lesson Before Dying.” The story highlights the tension in the lives of African-Americans during the 1940s. It demonstrates a world of racial segregation. The novel mainly talks about two men. One man's struggle to accept his unjust death with dignity. Another man struggles with his own identity and responsibility to his community. A Lesson Before Dying reveals the process of an oppressed black people's attempt to gain recognition of their human…

Samantha White is portrayed as a multiracial, heterosexual female. Sam is the creator of the Dear White People radio show that she uses to call out various forms of racism and express her disgust of racial stereotypes. Although she is multiracial, Sam only refers to herself as being black while completely ignoring her white heritage. She openly expresses her blackness but is occasionally accused of overcompensating by her black friends because of this. One example of this is when Sam’s friend…

Mental Health America, over 6.8 million people who identify as black or African American had a diagnosable mental illness in 2015 (par. 2). Moreover, “Adult Black/African Americans are 20 percent more likely to report serious psychological distress than adult whites. Adult Black/African Americans are more likely to have feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and worthlessness than are adult whites” (Black & African American communities par 2) . This exemplifies the impact that the discourse…

a Negro in the South during the 1950s. The story narrates the struggles that an African-American has to endure in order to survive the hostile world of the segregated South filled with racial tensions. The book describes in detail the life experience of John Howard Griffin as a “Negro” during his six-week journey through the segregated world of the South. As a whole, the book describe how the African-American people live in the South during the segregated era in the south.…

‘Still I Rise’ by the American, Maya Angelou presents the character of a black woman who is oppressed in the 1970s but refuses to accept this. ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen, however, is concerned with a character who is ‘broken’ after the disabilities he suffers in the First World War at the beginning of the twentieth century. The poem ‘Still I Rise’ is about a woman who discloses that she will overcome anything due to her self-confidence. The line ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ is a metaphor…

Many are determined to accomplish their dreams, but the desire of wanting to achieve it clouds one's mind. During 1959, many African Americans desperately hoped to find their individual opportunity to achieve the American dream. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry shows the theme of people struggle to achieve their dreams while they deal with oppressive conflict that comes with it through hyperbole, dialogue, and metaphor. After Mama receives her ten thousand dollar paycheck,…

Court” by Zora Neale Hurston, the overall theme of the story is, life, the injustices of being an Afro-American woman in the 1950’s. Throughout the story Hurston provides some examples of what Laura Lee, the main character, has to go through. From the plot, to the characterization of her, and the setting of the story help to further show the many injustices that she encountered for being in Afro-American woman The story is traditional Western narrative in the way that the story includes an…

Comparative Essay- Still I Rise and Telephone Conversation Maya Angelou and Wole Soyinka’s poems have often been described as a powerful and serious agent to social change. Their themes are primarily concerned with the promotion of human rights and African politics. At the same time, poems as "Telephone Conversation" and “Still I Rise” reveal a lyrical understanding of the same theme balanced with humour and a deeply felt concern for the human condition. Maya Angelo published her poem in 1978…

villagers would touch his hair and how they would try to rub the black off his skin. The reason is they are unaware of black history in America, and African-American element is non-existent in Europe. Baldwin explains that the villagers are not unkind deliberately; their sin is just lack of knowledge about history of black…