Lebanese diaspora

Throughout the civil rights movement, African Americans received no respect for decades and decades, no matter if you were old or young, man or a woman. Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspirational speaker sticking up for what was right. While dealing with the same disrespect all Negroes were receiving. During the civil rights movement King spoke out his hopes and wishes for the world, hoping to change the ways of many. By using appeals to logic and emotion, it helped people understand Kings work…

In his essay, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space”, Brent Staples uses the rhetorical strategies of anecdote and diction in order to convey his message that due to racial discrimination black people (mainly men) have to change the way they naturally conduct themselves in public for they run the risk of something terrible happening to them. Staples uses anecdotes to bring in the personal side of the message to the audience. Staples creates a persona of innocence…

Kate Chopin’s Desiree's Baby is a short story that depicts the life of a wealthy ‘Creoles’(White descendants of French settlers in Louisiana) in antebellum Louisiana. Consequently, the story describes some of the darker tendencies of ignorance and bigotry, as well as drawing a cruel image of the treatment of slaves in racist America from a time long ago. In addition, desiree's Baby was written during a time where political satire was needed the most as an ocean of change threatened the status…

As a result of the multitudes of eye-opening written works describing the African American plight, modern day society has become more progressive and determined to fight for racial equality. By recounting the persecution of African Americans, the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Maya Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” contribute to the quest for equal rights. Moreover, these pieces of literature share a central idea as they both focus on the African American…

Throughout history, humans have isolated one another based on what they consider defining characteristics; Americans frequently treated one another poorly due to race. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man highlights the values of a culture or a society by using a character who is alienated from society because of his race. The narrator, or Invisible Man, feels as his name describes him, invisible, because he is African American and has been ignored, forgotten, disregarded, and overlooked throughout the…

In 1845, the Great Famine began, leaving an everlasting mark on the Irish people and the political landscape of their country. The potato crop, which sustained much of Ireland’s population, stopped growing, leading to mass starvation and the death of over a million people. In The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, Anna O’Donnell is born near the end of this national tragedy and survives, but later chooses to starve herself, much to the despair of her nurse Lib. Similarly, the movie Some Mother’s Son…

Within the two books of "Black Like Me" and "The Help", two characters seem to really stick out. Not sure if this because they are main characters or not. The two characters John Howard Griffin and Aibileen Clark exemplify the themes of race, society and class, and man versus society through their steadfast changes throughout the book and their developing relationships with other characters. Race is a big theme with these two characters in their books. John Griffin's whole story relates back to…

Yes, I do believe that Hansberry’s stage drama has helped be comprehend what she wanted her audience to understand through the story of the Younger family. Hansberry wanted to tell her audience the truth about the black people in that time period and teach about their life. she wanted to teach the audience whet the black people did on a day to day basis. She wanted her audiences to understand that the African American race is just as complicated and similar as other races of people are. She…

I am a young African American women who will rise above society's standards through becoming educated,being informed and becoming more independent. Education is the key to many success if ‘’we don't learn than we don't grow’’ meaning you are not expanding your mind and learning ,maintaining information that we should. I will educate myself by learning and improving on my grammar. Expanding your grammar can help with communication skills. Communication is highly important if you want to become…

A common misconception is the belief that African American history begins in America. Dating back to West African tribal civilizations, hair was seen as an extension of a person. By looking at a person’s hair, one could discern multiple aspects of their identity. According to Seiber and Herreman (2000), hairstyles reflected social “status, gender, ethnic origin, leadership role, personal taste, or place in the cycle of life” (pg. 56). One of the most distinctive characteristics of African…