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The book was titled "Invisible Man" because the book is about being socially invisible. The narrator feels like she's invisible because no one sees him for himself. Instead of that people see him as a black man and nothing more. They don't even look deeper into who he is and what he stands for. With that being said, the narrator runs with that. That made him hibernate in a secrete room in a basement of a building full of white tenants. The narrator hisses there waiting for some sort of action to…

The song ”The Blacker the Berry” by Kendrick Lamer was released on February 9th 2015. “The Blacker the Berry” is also the title of a novel by Wallace Thurman. The song and the novel actually share more than just the title - they both deal with the theme “racism”. But is racism even still a thing in the US? What is it really like being a minority today compared to just a few decades or centuries ago? Kendrick Lamar partially answers those questions in “The Blacker the Berry.” America has dealt…

In the 1960s, the philosophy of Malcolm X was more practical than Martin Luther King’s ideology because it did not depend as heavily on the shift of the ideas of the white populous. Although Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. both advocated for equal rights for African Americans, their ideas of how to accomplish this goal, including the goal itself, varied (Document 1). Malcolm X grew up through foster homes and dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen and after he became involved…

Emmett Till’s murder tells the people that racism is inhuman, unjust, terrifying, hateful, and disgraceful, to the African American community. I believe the progress has been uneven in the U.S when talking about moving beyond the conditions that prevailed in the 1950’s, however the changes has been moving in a forward motion to embrace all people. Till’s murder showed how much hate the whites had toward the African American people and how inhuman the whites were. Stated in the Documentary “ The…

In the novel “Sing for Your Life” by Daniel Bergner, the author uses memories and present day events from Ryan Speedo Green’s life to create a cause-and-effect plot instead of a traditional chronological plot. Bergner sets the novel up in a cause-and-effect structure so the readers can see how the events from Ryan's childhood impact his adult life and choices. In the novel, the author switches between Ryan’s childhood and adulthood for the purpose of showing how his past struggles affect his…

I better understood the implications of being American after analyzing Ta Nehisi Coates’s argument that the black male body fuels the “Dream” as it cannot exist without the marginalization of others. While black bodies built today’s America, the “Dream” of a nuclear family with a white picket fence disenfranchises those who instilled its idealization. I expanded my perception of America’s hypocritical identity by relating “Between the World and Me” to Eduardo Galeano’s poem “1492.” Galeano’s…

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were two men that devoted their life to the reform of black lives. They believed in different things, yet had the same vision. Washington’s vision was more basic, while DuBois’ was more developed. The two men debated in the 19th and 20th century about education for blacks. Washington was born into slavery and grew up in slavery his whole life. He received a childhood education while he worked. Later, Washington attended Hampton Institute for vocational…

Name: Course Instructor: Class: Date: The Concepts of Exteriority and Maturity in Theme for English B and Black Cuban, Black Introduction Exteriorization constitutes both an ontology and a process. Exteriority thus invites us to consider the existence of the binary of exterior and interior as a medium in which literary content becomes process and the process transforms to content (Park 98). A classic can occur with the maturity of civilization, literature and language, and it must also be the…

Reflection W.E.B. Du Bois During the study of the time period W.E.B. Du Bois stood out as an influential civil rights figure during the mid-20th century. Black soldiers volunteered in WWI under the inspiration of Du Bois. Du Bois encourage African Americans needed to close the ranks of the whites. African Americans joined to show their patriotism and self-worth. As a soldier myself I can relate with Du Bois with the points he made. Serving gave these men pride in themselves and the strength…

Aspiration leads the narrator through Invisible Man. The narrator aspires to be like influential people in black society, such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. Washington was a prominent African American speaker in the 19th century, while Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Before participating in the Battle Royal the narrator prepares to deliver a speech to the white audience in which he expresses, “I visualized myself…