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Renaissance”(history.com). The Harlem Renaissance marked a time of black individualism and also a time of whereby a variety of characters whose uniqueness, originality, and creativity challenged and provoked the traditional incapability of white people to differentiate between black people (Clement Price). The acceptable role for an african american woman in the harlem renaissance was to be a salon hostess or an entertainer. Therefor black female writers and other non-hostess were either ignored…

I think with fond memories of the big tree that grew in my grandmother’s yard, with branches that were the perfect size for switches. I hear her booming and shrill voice now, commanding, “Go and pick a switch” (Cooper). For many African Americans this is a walk down memory lane. The use of switches, hands, belts, and many other objects are utilized to physically discipline children, in the African American community, it is often referred to as receiving a whooping/whipping. The difference…

they did not fall apart by themselves. For there to be anarchy in the world there needs to be multiple factor which for the Ibo would be the Christians. With these two sides: the Ibo fell apart because of their own rituals and beliefs leaving some people doubting their culture caution things to fall apart, or the Christians speed up the process that was already going on it is taught to decide which is it especially when there is one more reason the Ibo could have fallen apart. Some could argue…

the lack of love that penetrates Pecola with the ideal that her situation will only improve if she becomes beautiful. Morrison is able to express this notion when she writes, “As long as she looked the way she did, she would have to stay with these people” (50). When Pecola realizes her necessity to become beautiful, she tries to develop the principle of white beauty into one of her only goals, thus making her focus on having blue eyes. This wish of blue eyes becomes more than an obsession to…

1. Explain through examples taken from Tea in the Harem how the main protagonist, Majid, maintains two cultural identities, one French and one Algerian. Which one seems to predominate in your opinion, if one does? For me the best example of the cultural differences that Majid is living in, is the door to home. “Majid goes straight into his flat without knocking. The front door’s always open…Levesque, on the other hand, has to ring his doorbell several times before his wife comes to let him…

Lorraine Hansberry, African American playwright and writer, was the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry completed her first play in 1957, which opened in March of 1959, taking her title from Langston Hughes ' poem, "Harlem” and that play was A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry was a great playwright that lived a short life. Hansberry died at the age of 34 but her work lived on. A Raisin in the Sun put Hansberry in the ranks of being a great…

In the last pages of his novel, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the advantage that black people have over the Dreamers: that they know how fragile life is. Ta-Nehisi describes the dream as the suburbs, as treehouses and cub scouts. He says that the Dream “smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry cake” (11). However the Dream rests on the backs of African Americans. African Americans never get to experience the dream because the bedding is made from their bodies and…

Throughout the 1880’s and the 1890’s, Harlem went through an extravagant transformation. Harlem went through a chain of cultures. Finally, in the span of ten years, the chain ended with African Americans. Whenever the people of Harlem transformed,…

Kenneth Branagh was cast as a Idris Elba, a Nordic god, in Thor. There was debate about whether or not a man of color should play the character, but Branagh defends himself by saying that Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra and other white actors played people of color, yet he gets hate for being a man of color playing a white character. Racism has been a dominant force in media for years, starting with minstrel shows that demeaned African Americans. Bamboozled, directed by Spike Lee, tells a…

“Race ing” Sideways The work of art depicts thirteen men who seem to be running a race but no one is in the lead. The color of the men’s skin changes from white to black as you look from left to right. And the color of the men’s cloth also changes from black to white if you look from left to right. This picture is presented in a completely black background which is outlined by a white frame. Nikolai Buglaj tries to reveal a hidden truth in this art work. As well as, compel the viewer to see the…