Public space

Have you ever necessarily lived in someone else’s shoes? In the following passages, “Black Men and Public Space,” by Brent Staples, and “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” by Martin Luther King Jr., both share their personal experiences living in the time where it felt like a curse to wear the black skin color. Brent Staples narrates his personal experiences supporting his message and making the audience sympathetic to his point-of-view of how it was living in New York and Chicago as an educated…

being around them. This makes it hard for them to accept the fact that they are not harmful to other cultures. With Brent Staples’s text,“Black Men in Public Space” his main agenda is to show the issues, stereotypes, and criticism he faces every day being African American in the community he lives in. According to Staples, in “Black Men in Public Space”, to judge An African American one has to truly understand the personal, historical background, and culture a little deeper. A reader has to…

In the text titled "Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space" authors Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon explore how urbinisation affected monuments especially when they were used to beautify and signify an entire city's identity or history. In this text there are two main focal points in which the authors expand on and a look into todays monuments status. They firstly focus on how contrasting message-wise the socialist and democratic monuments are, even though they appear to be similar in form and…

brave—has paved a path of oppression more than it has liberated. But the most heinous illustration of American despotism lies within the howling echoes of the degradation of black citizens. Among these victims is Brent Staples, author of Black Men in Public Space. Muffling his rage throughout the piece, Staples elects his own life story as the representative of his race’s odyssey through America. Yet the effectiveness of Staples’ piece relies on one critical element of his raging…

one race is fundamentally superior to another, leaving the other race potentially more dangerous, violent, and more likely to be the cause of problems. Despite any real evidence, many believe this is true. Brent Staples, author of “Black Men and Public Spaces” shares some of his own experiences, as being an African American man himself and many of his troubles caused by his race. Staples, being African American, has been mistaken for a criminal countless times. Many people have before been…

Everywhere I go there is a new set of people that see me as just another overachieving Wanamaker. In the story Black Men in Public Spaces, it talks about how the author would let people categorize him based upon his race and clothing while changing the way he acts so that people do not perceive him as an attacker. The author states that he was “Surprised, dismayed, and embarrassed…

Coming Together To Make A Change As I read “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples, I couldn’t help but think of how many people are fighting and protesting against the leading republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. While Trump’s target is the Mexican immigrant, it directly affects all foreign and colored people of America. He’s setting a horrible example for his followers, letting them believe it’s okay to use racial profiling and stereotypes. Like many colored people, Staples…

going to get treated especially for the way you dress, act, gender, and race. In recent years, since racism first began non colored people would think they are better and smarter than colored people. Reflecting on an essay called “Black men and public space” is a man who is black and has encountered many people who would judge him by the color of his skin. He experiences people treating him differently and on experience he goes through is walking down the street, at the time 22 years old and a…

In the essay Black Men in a Public Space by Brent Staples published in Harper in 1987, Staples explains the preconceived notions Caucasians and other races have of African Americans while they are in public. The essay begins with Staples explaining the first time he made a individual in public, in particular, a Caucasian women feel uncomfortable by merely just his presence on a sidewalk during the evening. Staples explains that at the time he was a twenty-two year old man and a new graduate…

been active in our history for hundreds of years. Over the past decades, many African American writers have stood up and fought for their civil liberties. Brent Staples, a writer for the New York Times, has written an essay called “Black Men in public Spaces” on the harsh cruelties of black life in America. Through his numerous heartbreaking personal experiences, passionate word choice, and metaphors, Staples effectively shows his American audience what it’s like for a black man…