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Modern American Memoirs edited by Annie Dillard is a series of excerpt from different memoirs wrote by successful writers to tell the readers what was the life like in their childhood. Many of these writers have gone through different struggles to become that they are today. Furthermore, most of them have shared some common tropes in their childhood. One common trope that is shared between James Baldwin and Anne Moody is segregation. Due to the fact both of them are “colored” people, they…

Bryan Stevenson states, ‘“Racial integrity” laws were part of a plan to replicate slavery’s racial hierarchy and reestablish the subordination of African Americans.” In relation to the history of race, in Just Mercy, Stevenson incorporates how historical events such as slavery, mass incarceration, “Jim Crow” laws, and racial terrorism have affected how people perceive race and racism. Race was conceived the way it was in the beginning of the early modern period because people, especially white,…

The Melting Pot was written by Adrienne Rich in 1968. She was an American poet. Taken from poets.org, she wrote poetry collection like The Diamond Cutters (Harper & Brothers, 1955), Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Harper & Row, 1963), Leaflets (W. W. Norton, 1969), and the others more. In that 1960s poetry, the content of her poem explores about women’s role in society, racism, and the Vietnam War. One of that is The Melting Pot (1968), its content is about racism. On each stanza, this poem…

non-fiction book about three black female mathematicians who work at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the space race. The film also based on the true story of brilliant African-American black women. The film published on December 25th, 2016, and it's was American biological drama film. The main actor is Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectory for Project Mercury and other missions. The film also features Octavia…

immigrate to Africa. He makes a compelling case, citing lack of education, slavery and too many free Blacks accepting their fate. He blames Blacks stating that many problems arise from “sheer ignorance” or “stupidity.” Just as today, many African Americans believe that President Obama should…

d.) (City of Southfield, n.d.). Demographics According to CityData.com, a website that details the demographics of cities, the current breakdown of races is as follows: African American 70 percent, Caucasian 20 percent, Multi-racial 3.6 percent, Asian 2.6 percent, Hispanic 2.4 percent, Non-defined 1.1 percent, and American Indian .3 percent. In 2016, the medium household income was reported at $49,664 (CityData.com, n.d.). According to the City of Southfield’s statistics, over 30 percent of…

such as flour, shoe polish, and candy. And even more products using pecans. From then on George became a well known as a leading agricultural scientist. The older George got the more he started noticing that other African Americans weren’t getting a good education because of them being a slave and not having as much as a education advantage as George did, so he did the best he could to help open an institute in his name to give opportunities for advanced study for African Americans. Along with…

In the 21th century, as an African American male or female, beauty and physical appearance play an important role in how society views us as a race; many are judged for these reasons and especially their choice of hairstyle. For example, in 2013 a KTBS 3 News anchor named Rhonda Lee was fired from her position after defending her natural hair on the station’s Facebook’s page. According to TV2WEEK.COM, in the year of 2013 the average commercial advertisement time during one hour of television…

The American Dream is an accomplishment that everybody wants to say they have. Their are people that come to America just for that reason; however it is a rude awakening for many. It is not easy to accomplish this dream their is still discrimination in the work place, which makes it very difficult. Their are success stories of the American Dream, but that is all that is being heard. Society does not hear that much about the discrimination that still occurs in todays world. This dream is not…

the town where Morrison grew up. What moved her towards writing the book was a conversation she had with a little girl who wanted to have blue eyes. She began writing it in 1962, when the Black is Beautiful movement was working to reclaim African-American beauty. (SparkNotes) Morrison’s goal when writing the “Bluest Eye” was to share something with us, something that is not spoken about, something kept secret. The first sentence we see already starts as a mystery – “Quiet as it’s kept”. In that…