Spanish Harlem

James Baldwin was an African American novelist born in 1924, and passed away in 1987. He wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions, during an important time of history when these topics were finally being more widely discussed. Though he is an African-American writer, one may think Baldwin specifically wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions in solely America, but he actually travels over the world to tackle these issues. One of his works that covers those issues abroad is A…

Leopold Seder Senghor, first Senegalese president, poet and politician and one of the pioneers in the Pan-African philosophical movement known as Negritude. He got a scholarship in 1925 and went to college in Paris. During his college years, he met Aime Cesaire and Leon Damas and together they established the negritude movement. In 1955 he is elected secretary of state of the French presidency before becoming in 1960 the first Senegalese president until 1980. Senghor promotes a quest for the…

Colors and Music in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Fatima Harb 39907 Lebanese University/ Master 1 Comparative literature Abstract A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams in 1947. In his play, Williams shed the light on the differences between classes in that age, through certain symbols, such as colors and music. The colors chosen by…

communicating their world views to a reader. The work of Langston Hughes reflected the lives of the African Americans around him during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, and also the history that they all shared in Africa. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of revival for traditional African culture and a push for racial equality across in the community of Harlem, a mostly black neighborhood in New York City. The time was filled with musical invention and African traditions reborn. The new…

Analysis of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” Langston Hughes’s essay, “The Negro and the Racial Mountain” explores the “Negro artist,” in which Hughes points out that the “Negro Artist” wishes to be more like white people. Hughes argues that African-American artists don’t know how to express themselves using their own culture, because they believe white people and even black people will not accept their artwork. In the essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial…

Skinhead is a member of a subculture that. originated among working class youngsters in London, England. It started to grow in 1960s and shortly after spread to the other parts of United Kingdom. In 1980 skinhead subculture was spreading worldwide with second working class skinhead movement. Skinheads, defined by their shaved. or short trimmed hair and working-class clothing such as boots, braces, high-ankle straight jeans and simple shirts, were motivated by. social alienation, expression of.…

Introduction Wallace Thurman, an author in the Harlem Renaissance, undoubtedly wrote one of the greatest novel of his time, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, written in 1929, discussing feminism and colourism of Harlem in the 1920s-30s. Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry has not been forgotten, as nearly 100 years after its release, it is the core of two of influential hip-hop artist songs, Tupac Shakur’s Keep Ya Head Up and Kendrick Lamar’s The Blacker the Berry. Lamar and Shakur are…

Each time I read this poem, it reminds me that I am special and can make a difference in not only my life but the lives of many others; especially people of color (i.e., children, adolescents, young and old adults). My opinion of being a black man that day, the day of the Million Man March, is that it was one special day in American history where I along with other people of color or “Black Men” felt proud. In fact, we were so empowered that we owned our world that day. We were united; we…

African Poetess I wanted to start off this essay with a nuanced about Phillis Wheatley. About how she not only contributed to the Revolutionary period of U.S. history, but helped shape how it was founded. How through her strength of courage and belief of liberty and peace she able to gain her freedom. You know these things already, she is one of our Founding Mothers. She’s right up there with Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Betsy Ross and Mum-Bet. So why am I writing this essay? Why do I…

The Race to African American Success during The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a time of great change for African-American history. “As result of World War I and the Great Migration, millions of African Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North.”(The Harlem Renaissance, pg. 354) They believe that the urban North would provide them with a superior life for their children, education, and jobs. The north also offer economic opportunity, social advancement, and…