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role in sustaining the community. Black values and life styles are strengthened within the American context when Black English is used. The black literary language not only shows love for life, but also the search and establishment of the self. This study entitled “Race and Gender as Themes in Selected Short Stories of Alice Walker” examines the dual afflictions of race and gender in the lives of African-American women and how Walker’s women overcome these afflictions and pursue their own…

vision and how they affect someone's ability to see. In these situations the characters failure to comprehend outwardly correlates to their failures to comprehend inwardly. Ellison uses blindness to dissect the cultural prejudice against African Americans by the ingrained ideology of society. As the narrator struggles to find his identity in a world full of racism and stereotypes he is forced to accept his invisibility. Ellison conveys that there are two sides to blindness. One being Reverend…

disappointments of the black man in his poetry. He never surrendered in light of the fact that he imagined an America in which black and white men would eat at the same table and be viewed as equal Americans. The setting of the poem is "all over the place America" that trusted that black men were not Americans or equal to the white men as human creatures. The narration is first individual with the poet as the narrator. Hughes was viewed as the first of the Harlem Renaissance poets. When he…

Stereotypes are present everywhere: in schools, on the streets, at work, everywhere. Asians are stereotyped as nerds; African Americans, criminals. It is too easy to assume another’s personality based on the looks of another due to the thoughts implanted by society. In the essay “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples, an African American writer, the author clearly depicts how stereotypes automatically create a person’s personality without getting to know someone through his use of a relatable…

The Butler is a powerful movie that demonstrates the various and complicated perspectives of the African Americans that were living during the civil rights movement. Usually, when watching a movie about African Americans, it highlights the risky excursion of African Americans who attempted to crush the racial boundaries unhesitant to celebrate winning their battle against racial discrimination. However, in the case of The Butler, it takes a close consideration regarding the conflicts inside the…

In past times African American people were discriminated against and segregated, making a lot of people stand up for their rights in different ways. The speech written by Martin Luther King, “I have a dream” and the poem written by Langston Hughes, “Harlem”, both of them talk about the times of the brutality over African American people. The two works are similar because they both talk about African Americans not having the right of freely expressing their dissatisfaction with oppression.…

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977) is a juxtaposition of classical myth and folklore that is deeply rooted in African American history and folk culture. Unfortunately, much of the criticism of Song of Solomon has tended to focus more on classical myth in a strict literary sense and less on the profound folk cultural context on which her writing is based1. Susan L. Blake says in her article “Folklore and Community in Song of Solomon” that the title of Morrison’s third novel is derived from a…

Textual Response Racially driven stereotypes have been around forever, especially where African-American males are concerned. Most likely you know a few yourself. However, in "Who Shot Johnny?" Debra Dickerson provides her insight, as to why she thinks Black men are stereotyped as criminals. Similarly, Brent Staples tackles the same issue in his piece titled, "Black Men and Public Space." While Staples and Dickerson touch on the same topic; each takes on the subject from a different perspective…

In the novel "The Bluest eye" by Tony Morrison, Morrison attempts to explore the meaning of beauty through the point of view of adolescent black girls as they tackle poverty, racism, sexism and the transition to adulthood. Morrison accomplishes this, through her writing she scrupulously decides which rhetoric devices to use in order to do so. Throughout her writing Morrison uses Scesis Onomaton to emphasize particular aspects she deems vital to the storytelling, while using symbolism to…

When you see someone or hear someone say they are a black belt, you probably look at or think of that person in a different way. They have put in the work, training, and time to become a master. Martial arts have been using a belt system for over 2500 years. There is a reason why they continue to do so, to this day: Because it works! While a black belt is most often associated with martial arts, there's another type of black belt you may be interested in earning. Especially if you're a guy…